I've been on Twitter since the beginning in 2007 and have experimented with different accounts for various projects, sometimes just playing around with random accounts.
From my experience using Twitter under Jack and Elon, I think I can say with certainty that the "free speech" under Elon is definitely worse.
Under Jack there were always a lot of crazy tweets flying around, and perhaps the worst case scenario one might get shadow banned - but at least you could keep your account and "vent" to yourself thinking you were changing the world 🤣
Most people think that Elon is the savior of free speech, and he loves to brand himself this way, but they don't see the many other layers of censorship right in front of their face such as...
Unpaid "peasant" accounts get little or no visibility
Paid accounts get a little more visibility
X Premium + accounts get even more exposure
Then if you are a well known celebrity/public figure that has the max account on X, you probably have more free speech and leeway than an average peasant account.
On one of my accounts I just got suspended, I believe for replying to someone saying they were an idiot.
If you do get suspended, there's no explanation why.
Either Elon is clueless about what his platform is really like or he's fully aware and perhaps it's just a big honeypot of some sort. Make the Trump voters think they have free speech to maximize tracking efforts?
Then pull some sort of bait and switch maneuver later?
Sad thing is it doesn't really matter if my account gets banned as you're not going to get much traction anyway unless you're an elite on the elite messaging system. 😄
Coconut Pete