That is also compatibile with definition of freedom.
People are free to buy more powerful hardware and internet connections.
But freedom does not mean that everybody has to afford it. You are free to work hard & earn money to buy a more powerful computer and more bandwidth.
I don't care about your freedom, man, neither about your definition of it.
I am not a religious person and as you said yourself, you are not even my friend.
All I care about is for Bitcoin to succeed in a long term - you put USD requirements over running a node and you are giving the power back, to the very same people that Satoshi was trying to escape from with his great invention.