I was talking only about X/Twitter. In practice, censorship wise, nothing has changed except what I would call the illusion of change with events like BanTheADL, people got banned/shadowed anyway. If Elon wanted change, as in really make the platform free speech like he said he would do, he literally would have to "sacrifice" Twitter to make it happen, as in ignore/fight the jewish groups and see how it ends, but as I said that requires breaking the NEH rule.

The pattern which I guess was in front of my eyes all this time, is that the system is VERY resistant to breaking the NEH rule when it's not them doing it. Change very rarely will happen if it's not done by ((them)). In retrospect the few times Twitter seemed to change, this past year/s, it was an illusion.

Regarding events outside of the western world... "no shit sherlock" I guess.