You're still falsely equating. Even if it were a slippery slope along a line, it's still a line. Not all of the points are directly adjacent to each other.
I believe in the importance of a free press, and recent developments are troubling and lead to understandable concerns about the ability of ordinary people and journalists to discuss, report on, or investigate without undue duress, potential criminal activities by rogue agents exceeding their mandate as proscribed by their democratically elected governments.