Twitter doesn't have "free speech rules". There is no connection between something Elon said once and the actual moderation system. This is true even though he owns it.

(The mods seem to ban accounts that get enough reports without really reading them. If I report an account it does tend to get banned 3-4 months later even though they've already sent me an email saying they ignored my report.)

Twitter does allow much more free speech than before the acquisition.

Yes, Twitter does allow you to be racist and transphobic as fuck now. What a win.

Previously things would be censored that were legitimate statistical data. Data can't be racist, but the old Twitter moderation team didn't care.

Hate to break it to you but when Professor Skullmeasurement went to an African country in 1920 and gave people IQ tests in a language they didn't speak then wrote a paper about it, that data is in fact racist.

Or more recently, Harvard's algorithms that mathematically demonstrate Asians don't have interesting personalities.

https://twitter.com/achenfinance/status/1676008389804019713

It's US data. To claim it is racist and censor it is exactly the problem.

No, it's less safe for it because he fired all the lawyers protecting you from governmental consequences of speech.

The moderation didn't actually change either though. They unbanned a bunch of people once, but as I said I've gotten a fair number banned again since they can't stop themselves.

Some things are definitely sayable now that could easily get you blocked before.

> People use Twitter because of its free speech rules

Perhaps a tiny minority of 1st Amendment weirdos in America, but outside of them nobody else cares. Normal people just want to follow Kim Kardashian.