Are you talking about the US?
Citisens of the USA have far more freedom than citisens of the UK, we don't have a written constitution, we don't have freedom of speech enshrined in our law.
Recently we adopted the European human rights charter, which supposedly gives us freedom of speech, but the small print allows UK ministers to overrule that on matter of 'protecting morals'.
The UK government is requiring that all ISPs implement it's 'cleanfeed' technology.
A way of filtering all internet content entering the UK, initially this was argued to be specifically to stop child porn, but surprise, surprise, the list of sites we are to be banned access to grows and grows everyday.
Many are political (terrorists and such) and now 'violent porn', the ability to expand the list even further without new law is already in place.
We routinely have our emails scanned (without a court order) and are required by law, under threat of two years imprisonment, to hand over encryption keys to the police.