Those who pine for a black and white "absolutist" utopia are once again confronted with a reality made from shades of gray.
Extremist ideology and solutions appeal to simple minded folks struggling to navigate a scary, complicated reality.
Musk is just a posterchild for the ideology he has embraced --- the idea that real world problems have easy, simple minded solutions.
Boldly declaring yourself a "free speech absolutist" is simple and appeals to a lot of people --- unfortunately, it is also naive and a poor fit for the complex reality of social media --- as Musk himself has just proven.
Anything coming from the right should be taken with the biggest grain of salt the world has ever seen. There's a 99% chance that they're screaming about nothing and a 100% chance that they're not telling the entire truth.