Its as free speech as each goverment allows. He could refuse those requests and face fines or completely being blocked by those countries.
If you look at the US:
Government-requested content actions are a vanishingly small fraction of total posts on every major platform. Using the 2024 X data from the prior response and standard volume estimates, the percentages are on the order of 0.0001% or lower.
X (formerly Twitter) — 2024
Consensus estimates put daily posts at roughly 500 million (≈182–200 billion posts per year).
Useqwitter
Actioned government removal cases in 2024: ~130,925 (51,487 in H1 + 79,438 in H2).
Percentage of total posts: ≈ 0.000072% (roughly 1 in every 1.4 million posts).
Compliance is driven primarily by local-law illegality in the requesting jurisdiction after a legal-sufficiency check, with the outcome usually geographic withholding rather than worldwide deletion.
Percentages of government actions compared to total posts:
X (2024): ~0.00007%
Meta: ~0.007–0.04% depending on the half-year (highest during automated Indonesia blocks)
YouTube: ~0.01–0.02%
TikTok: << 0.001%
