[gorwell]

X is still ground zero for news, and it saved free speech. In the fullness of time and distance it will be viewed by historians as one of the most important events in history.

[rtkwe]

Your post gets shadow banned for the word cisgender on X... the only speech it saved was low effort trolling, misinformation and hate speech. Musk's version of free speech is just changing the dials on the moderation machines to boost speech he prefers and shadow ban speech his doesn't.

[gorwell]

Not the same. Posts get reduced visibility and reach for using slurs, and Twitter used to go further and delete slurs and even ban the poster.

[pram]

Oh for sure, it's so important we should restart the count of years to mark the significance. 2022 will be year 1, the rest 'Anno X'

[baseballdork]

Legitimately can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Saved free speech??

[gorwell]

Yes, it did. Every large platform including Twitter was censoring its users due to state pressure. Even Facebook has since admitted that they were told to censor information that was true, and they knew to be true.