It's easy to point to 'oppressive' countries like China (where twitter is banned), or Turkey[1], or India[2] as examples of where speech can be severely limited, but there are many limitations to speech in other countries like Germany, Canada, France, Australia, UK.
When you make a globally available website, how do you "follow the law" when the laws of various countries are not compatible with each other? Do you geolock all tweets - Canada twitter is vastly different to US twitter? That doesn't sound scalable good!
[1]: https://www.article19.org/resources/turkey-twitter-becomes-l...
[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/6/22564768/twitter-india-leg...
Musk's Twitter is certainly going to clash hard with Europe's recently adopted Digital Services Act.