I'm sorry, is free speech absolute in your country? How would you feel about receiving daily credible death threats to you and your family? Or having a loved one kill themselves over being harassed online? All those things happen, quite often too. I'm glad they're illegal where I live and that I can ask our justice system to do something about it. And I think they're illegal in yours too.

Also, YOUR country is falling into authoritarianism, not mine, despite your "absolute free speech". Lies proliferation and rampant misinformation led to a President that is free from any accountability.