It's not free marked at all.

Free marked is about having a competition between companies where the user decides who wins by buying the best products.

The concept of a free marked was invented before there had been massive marked limiting factors like "lock down" of digital devices and similar.

Somehow a lot of people still take all the original arguments why a free marked is good but then use them to argue for a marked which is neither free nor has the marked dynamics anymore which make a free marked a potential "good" marked strategy.

In the end a free marked needs to have proper competition. Weather that is limited by the government or by companies abusing a change in technological landscape which gives them powers which originally at best governments had doesn't matter, it's no longer a free marked at all and no of the reasons why it's supposedly good do uphold then.