I saw plenty of far out posts under the previous owners too...

But X banned accounts for non-spam content violations at a much higher rate than Twitter and approved content censorship requests from authoritarian states at a higher rate

In this algorithmically recommended world it would be naive enough to think that censorship is as binary as “you can’t say that!” or “now you see it / now you don’t (because we took it down!)” It’s all about the reach these days, i.e. “you can say whatever you want but we control how many people actually see it”:

https://theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-of-xs-algorithm-can-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/29/elon-mu...

Here's one example: https://x.com/PushDemsLeft/status/2085803160342241367