This kind of thinking annoys me. It implies that freedom is about the right to watch scat porn online or being able to torrent dvds.
Freedom in Thailand - for a foreigner - comes from not being 24/7 subject to marxist, feminist pc bullshit which has completely pervaded most western countries. It's all the little things which makes life so much easier and more enjoyable, which in the west are either censored, illegal or regulated/taxed.
If any of this doesn't ring true with you, then I guess good for you, but freedom isn't about imaginary free elections and being able to call President Obama a cocksucker. In Thailand the rich make no attempt to hide the fact they are controlling the poor masses, which at least makes it honest. In the west, the elite wants to get all the way into your mind. They not only want to own your body, but the way you think, feel and dream. They push themselves into every part of your life all the way into your family as well.
Edit: Yes, I know Thailand has some archaic laws against slander and that free speech is less than stellar. I still think it is preferable to living in a country where the people in charge are dead set at destroying it through immigrations and spending on bottom feeders.