Think you're just missing the obvious: much of the tech scene is simply not pro-neutrality or pro-free speech, they are pro their specific values having dominance and anti any platforming of counter discourse.
This is actually more true of everyone in general than many think, it is just that left of center social/cultural values are ascendant in all big corps and tech cos so any challenge to that is going to generate a big push back from those supportive of the status quo.
Ya that could be, I'm in tech so I see it all day, but I tend to be [sometimes] pleasantly surprised at the libertarian ethos that still floats around Hn.. moreso than other platforms that just devolve into flame wars.
Obviously Musk has done some controversial stuff and it's going to piss people off, but do we believe that he has a vision for free speech (not anything goes but free speech as in classic ACLU values free speech) or not? How often does he not say exactly what he thinks?
This is actually more true of everyone in general than many think, it is just that left of center social/cultural values are ascendant in all big corps and tech cos so any challenge to that is going to generate a big push back from those supportive of the status quo.