Last time I used Freenet, not only it was made in Jewva, it was terribly outdated too, and nothing worked.
But reading through their README, they sound very communist to me.

> The public square is privately owned, threatening freedom of speech and democracy.

To break it down:

> The public square is privately owned

Like how it should be!

> The public square is privately owned, threatening freedom of speech

No, I think this is completely irrelevant to one other.
Freedom of speech is being threatened regardless of private (corporate) or public (government) ownership, it all depends on how much power and control the owner (or the owner being owned by a bigger owner) takes.

> threatening freedom of speech and democracy.

2 contradicting stuff.
Freedom of speech is something that needs to be saved, but DEMONcracy is a just a glorified DICKtatorship with the illusion of choice (which in reality you don't have, because every establishment option is exactly the same, and the rest never wins by design).

Plus them relying exclusively on big centralized spyware platforms (JewTube, Vimeo, Goyhub, Shitter, Discuck, and Matrix.org) with no FOSS options available to promote their FOSS decentralized privacy protocol, plus the fact that their Discuck channel and Matrix channel are bridged really screams controlled opposition.