[Rzor]

>I’m sure Musk is going to say this is about free speech in an attempt to gin up his supporters.

Way ahead of you, they already said that when the same French authority launched an investigation due to "[...] offences related to the platform, including the spreading of child abuse images and sexually explicit deepfakes, the denial of crimes against humanity and manipulation of an automated data processing system as part of an organised group.". This is just more fuel to the fire.

As for your last statement, Brazil also did something, two weeks ago: https://archive.is/jF2ZW [Brazil gives Musk's xAI 30 days to tackle fake sexualized content from Grok, Reuters]