>>508109188Freedom in contemporary Anglosphere thought (and in the west in general) seems to be defined entirely in terms of the government, the less gubmint the freer you are, even if it functionally means you're chattel of a megacorporation. Their popular literature conflates the fight for freedom as a struggle against "oppressive regimes" who deny freedom to their population on a government level.
Unironically, you are more free under a benevolent "totalitarian" regime than a liberal democracy if you define freedom in a more meaningful sense.