> High profile figures were banned from Twitter.

One of Musk's first acts as owner was to do that. https://x.com/elonjet (and the journalists reporting on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensi...)

(After previously explicitly promising not to, citing… freedom of speech! https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456)

Bunch more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspensions_on_X#2023

> anything not in line with woke ideology

How did so many Republican politicians survive on there?!

> Now you can post whatever you like on most of these platforms.

As long as it isn't the word "cisgender". https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/elon-musk-free-speec...

Or a link to Mastodon. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63999452

> Zuckerberg even cited government pressure around content suppression and censorship.

To curry favor with the new admin, sure.

> Accounts would be banned. Communities were shut down on Reddit.

This happens regularly, today. https://www.reddit.com/r/BannedSubs/