Not all free countries guarantee free speech to the degree implied. Many European countries ban Holocaust denial, many also ban blasphemous speech. "Hate speech" is also banned in many jurisdictions. The dissemination of creative works is also variable: France attacks all photographs of the Eiffel Tower at night in the country. Defamation is both easier to claim and more likely to be a crime rather than a civil dispute in Europe; it is bad enough in the UK that a US law was passed to prevent US courts from complying with many UK libel claims. And that is in Europe, which is still pretty good. In Asia, Africa, and LA many countries have freedom of expression in their constitution but do not actually hold to that; China, of all places, claims to guarantee freedom of speech.
Oddly, Australia does not guarantee freedom of expression. Limited freedoms are a part of common law and Australia is decent on the issue (fairly bad for the Anglosphere, though), but it isn't explicitly guaranteed.