I've been quietly chuckling to myself every time I read or hear someone say that Elon Musk is going to bring "free speech" back to Twitter. Twitter's policies existed for a reason. It is a money-making business, that relies on advertisers for revenue. Do people really think that companies like Nike, Coca-Cola, Amazon, or Disney are going to advertise on a platform where people post, extremist manifestos, demented imagery, criminal solicitation, or whatever hate-filled thing that pops into their head?
If Twitter becomes the wild west, as a money-making business it will dry up faster than an ice cube in the desert. Unless Elon likes throwing money down sinkholes, he's going to discover pretty damn quick that he is going to have to moderate Twitter pretty much the same way it was being moderated before.