I write sci-fi so I like to wildly speculate, so here goes:
I think the point of having X be the everything app is that as we experience extreme amounts of crime because of the neglect of the authorities, and transition to the privatized everything, no default trust future where you get nothing for just being a human who isn't in prison, when you get cancelled you'll really get cancelled. You'll not only get all your social media accounts cancelled, but your bank accounts, the lease on the place you live, your ability to go to grocery stores, your ability to purchase gas, your ability to get a loan, your ability to use public transit, your internet connection, your ability to use public bathrooms, your ability to use dating apps, etc. will all be cancelled. X will provide all of these, and X will not cancel you.
This has precedent. China, during Zero Covid in 2022, would lock you out of absolutely everything if you didn't go stand in line half the day to get a Covid test every single day. I could imagine all the private providers of absolutely everything banding together to implement the same thing in a private system with the cheering of the populace since it's the only way to protect against criminals when you get a San Francisco style situation where the government gives up on enforcing most laws.
I rarely use Twitter, had the amount of band really increased compared to the list 3 years?
I don't know if that data is actually public anywhere, but I'd be really shocked/appalled if they're banning more today then when Twitter (and others) where regularly working with the federal government to control what could be discussed related to CoV-2 and the pandemic response.
Yeah looking back again I misread the OP a bit. I'm still really interested in whether the number of bans is even close to the last few years, but that's a bit more off topic that I meant.
If you accept that great harm can occur when somebody is deprived of vital services by a private company, why on earth do you think it's a good idea for one single private company to control all those vital services? Even if their current owner weren't a ... let's say 'less than stable' individual.
All privatized innovation is by definition good, all government adaptation is by definition bad, move fast and break things up to and including global civilization I guess. The thought monoculture here is finally starting to go fetid in wider culture, perhaps?
I think the point of having X be the everything app is that as we experience extreme amounts of crime because of the neglect of the authorities, and transition to the privatized everything, no default trust future where you get nothing for just being a human who isn't in prison, when you get cancelled you'll really get cancelled. You'll not only get all your social media accounts cancelled, but your bank accounts, the lease on the place you live, your ability to go to grocery stores, your ability to purchase gas, your ability to get a loan, your ability to use public transit, your internet connection, your ability to use public bathrooms, your ability to use dating apps, etc. will all be cancelled. X will provide all of these, and X will not cancel you.
This has precedent. China, during Zero Covid in 2022, would lock you out of absolutely everything if you didn't go stand in line half the day to get a Covid test every single day. I could imagine all the private providers of absolutely everything banding together to implement the same thing in a private system with the cheering of the populace since it's the only way to protect against criminals when you get a San Francisco style situation where the government gives up on enforcing most laws.