Indeed; China doesn't like references to a certain children's cartoon / book character, and nearly two billion people do not take kindly to any kind of disrespect aimed at their prophet.

You can also look north to Canada where the American notion of “free speech” does not apply. There are reasonable limits on hate speech, obscenity, defamation and the like.

How does Canada define hate speech and obscenity? Both of those are categories of speech ripe for 'think of the children' authoritarianism.

US has by far the most liberal freedom of speech (and I consider it very much superior compared to other countries' implementation)

Musk's Twitter is certainly going to clash hard with Europe's recently adopted Digital Services Act.

But who is suggesting that Musk is going to enforce non-US laws on Twitter more than it currently does? He seems to be for the opposite of that.