This is true, but what are they going to do to me? The threat is not clear to me.
A big problem is that the threat to you exists, but is subtle: society gets worse when we allow this to happen to all those people that we would consider heroes years in the future but are deemed (sometimes by the letter of the law, sometimes not) criminals right now. Conformity for the forest by pruning the trees.
The bit about the free speech is a bit of a tangent, seeing as I can reasonably pick my battles, but the rest is fair.