While you’re not wrong, you have to keep in mind that there are actors who try very deliberately to hide the fact that they are removing freedoms. Most people

While you’re not wrong, you have to keep in mind that there are actors who try very deliberately to hide the fact that they are removing freedoms. Most people aren’t on the lookout for every reduction in freedom and, at least in the US, we have surprisingly few institutional and/or powerful guards against the erosion of freedoms.