The definition of authoritarianism has widely expanded into uselessness, because it colors with the same brush concepts as disparate as:

* Throwing a bag over your head and sending you to a tropical gulag for life without trial or access to a lawyer, contrary to the explicit ruling of a judge reviewing your case.

* Requiring you to wear a piece of cloth on your face in the middle of a deadly pandemic that's killing millions of people.

(Its not that we can't tell the difference between them, any child above the age of 8 can grasp the distinction, it's that people who love the former and are mildly annoyed by the latter are being deliberately obtuse about it.)