It's not even enough to "speak out" against threats to free speech. In Japan they neutered the Yakuza (we can argue whether that's a good thing but that's another debate) by making it illegal for businesses to pay "protection money" to the neighborhood thugs. Collectively it made it a waste of time for gangs to pursue those rackets. Another example is the longstanding American anti-terror policy of "don't pay ransom for hostages".

In an alternate reality where America wasn't the great satan it is, it would be imposing fines or worse against those American companies being held hostage for even attempting to comply with draconian laws overseas. Oh you think it's bad that Pavel Durov was locked up for refusing to give user data to the government? That's funny because we'll do even worse to Zuckerberg if he hands our citizen's data over to the French. When it no longer becomes profitable to hold our people hostage - because our multinats are more afraid of what we'll do to them than what foreign governments will - other countries would either stop doing it, or try to set up their own competing tech companies and keep us out of their markets altogether. It would have been far better for Google to stay out of the Chinese market than live under their rules - better for the people anyway, not for Sergey and Eric and Five Eyes.