Right. It's not "free speech absolutism" to let a dictator push you around with what speech your very principled platform puts on, is it?

Twitter used to fight those, as I mentioned. And won a lot of them. Again: what of Musk? Surely it's not just an act and he's a simp for dictators.

Fight those, so long as they were trying to take down left-wingers, right?

Unless you have information I do not, you have no idea the content of those requests. But given the list of countries that Twitter refused demands from, I am willing to guess that no, it's not all requests aimed at your ideological brethren.