It can be hard to be a writer with a vision. Even back in Roman times, the writer didn't always have it easy.
But regardless, keep on putting your own truth and vision out there.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/16/ovids-exile-to-the-remotest-margins-of-the-roman-empire-revoked
Even in current times, a lot of writers and other artists live in exile. The Writers in Exile Program of the German PEN chapter sponsors a dozen or so each year, and each person's story is heartbreaking and terrifying. They are pretty much all writers who had offended the current regimes in their countries, and whose relocation is probably essential to avoid prison or even death. Some were even imprisoned before exile.
I knew a lot of older Jews in L.A. whose ancestors - artists and writers in Germany and other parts of Europe pre-WWII - fled before the Nazis had a chance to kill them. Many of them worked in the early film industry in L.A., just like many of them worked in the early publishing and art industries in New York. The LA County Museum had a great exhibit around 20 years ago on the movement, and much has been written about it.
Freedom of speech/freedom of expression is something that we should all be grateful for - those ideas/beliefs/laws don't even exist in many parts of the world.