That's really bad and probably it's hard to compare, but Germany goes in a similiar direction, although it's more a more harmless light-version from this what's going on in Venezuela.

In the western world we get a dictatorship of Political Correctness, which comes more day by day, so when your opinion is another one as this what politics and medias say, you will be a victim of censorship and they say "any other opinion is hate speech", before some people get problems with the law.

I'm not sure what's the reason for this, but the recession of freedom is to expand worldwide, even in western countries which are privileged heretofore (this condition will not to persist for a long time).