Elon didn’t start a new social network, he took over Twitter. You don’t need to start a new city, you can take over existing ones by just moving there en masse and voting for your candidates. You don’t even need 44b. This is hard to do, but it’s easier than moving all the intellectual capital out of SF. Network effects are hard to disrupt.

TwitterX accounts were banned for parody violation, banned for posting links to Twitter alternatives, and now we see bans/suppression related to politics. Twitter still has an autocrat.

Calling that a free speech success undermines the call for making SF great.

Wasn’t the “White Dudes for Harris” account banned during their fundraising event in which they raised over $4 million?

I think Twitter has improved in some areas and failed in others. Perhaps it’s a net improvement (I won’t arbitrarily quantify as you did). But let’s dispense the fantasy that Musk, or anyone, can bring meaningful free speech while simultaneously fingering a ban button.

I also question the importance of Twitter.

Who’s being banned for politics?

The improvement is orders of magnitude better than previous administration, and that is the most important thing Elon has ever done IMO