"The answer is that it was less censored than it is now."
I read the rest of your post, but you are gaslighting if you feel Twitter is more censored now. I don't care what some fake numbers say, you ...
This tells me that you are not in fact interested in evidence-based perspectives on social media censorship. Either that or it’s only censorship to you when opinions you agree with are being suppressed. How you “feel” is irrelevant, for reasons I hope I don’t have to explain.