CBDCs offer benefits, and the downsides we already deal with. The digital money we transact with now is just as “antifreedumb” as you make CBDCs to be.
All of this goes away with CBDCs. The government can track everything. The government can take away everything instantly. The government can decide I'm not allowed to spend my money on certain things they don't agree with.
Trying to save up for the down payment on a house or a new car? Nope, that tax return we gave you expires in 3 months to force you to stimulate the economy. Bought a gun that was completely legal at the time, but the government has since decided you shouldn't have it? We have a record of you buying it, so we'll send the ATF to raid your house for it. Said something critical of the current president on social media? We've frozen all your money until we reeducate you.
It's not a matter of if this will be abused, it's a matter of when and how badly.
As you mentioned, these scenarios would be theoretically possible currently with cash held in bank accounts—or, put differently, the vast majority of cash held by people. If government wanted to do these things, or alternatively, thought they could get away with them, why would we not already be seeing it?
It already is happening. For example, Canada froze the bank accounts of unpopular protestors.
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/bureaucrats-who-froze...
I'm not stumping for CBDC, but these examples seem to carry the assumption that the government would be doing them were it not for practical barriers that CBDC permits them to bypass. But I think the government could do them now, it just doesn't.
I'm not actually sure what the social media thing has to do with CBDC at all actually.
Trying to pull that shit here would guarantee riots and runs on banks.