Politicians protecting an industry through action or inaction, no matter if its lobbyists or others suggesting that they do, isn't the free market.
It is all very well excluding corporate lobbying from your scholastic definition of a free market. Such a market will never exist anywhere for more than five minutes.
Remember kids: If it's broken, apply Free Market liberally to the affected areas.
Are you suggesting complicated taxes isn't the government's fault?
A bunch of people with a lot of money have been able to lock in their positions. It sure feels like pulling out of the church of laissez-faire economics would let us, say, pass laws with things like price controls (or just nationalizing the whole industry!).
An aside: complicated taxes aren't the opposite of "free market". For example, giving tax incentives to new companies can help make a market more free by reducing the cost of entry.