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(Surely the most dangerous social media platforms are the ones used to influence kids/teens? Twitter and Facebook are for the oldies at this point)
That's who Elon unbanned.
Now if you've bought into the lie that Elon is a free speech absolutist, which he absolutely is not, you might consider that a good thing. Now take a look at a partial list of Twitter accounts Elon has banned [2]. This includes many journalists and a guy posting where his private plane is (from public information), many of whom were banned for simply hurting his feelings or calling out one of his lies.
[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwa7z/twitter-elon-musk-dom...
[2]: https://observer.com/2022/12/elon-musk-suspend-twitter-accou...
Heavy moderation is a technique that makes dang’s job easier by perpetuating rigorous standards and makes people police themselves. See Broken Window Theory.
To me, there has been no significant change, aside from hearing more people on the left bemoan that Elon is giving "dangerous" people on the right a platform.
But I honestly don't see an actual difference aside from people saying there is one.
Yeah, but everyone who does use Twitter will see it. The place is going down in flames - no matter what you write, you'll get likes from a "<firstname><bunchofnumbers>" bots, and replies such as "P U S S Y I N B I O" in a matter of seconds.
Perhaps it was the weird hyperbole about democracy his comment was targeting?
"Democracy is when people vote the way I do, silencing them isn't censorship, youre all fascist/racist/*-phobic"
Pretending to pretend to care is even worse by any objective standard; do you not see the moral qualm you have indebted your own pathos?