Twitter 1.0 had all sorts of complex policies that ultimately boiled down to banning people the owners didn’t like. Twitter 2.0 has zero policies and just bans people the owner doesn’t like randomly
Twitter 1.0 was owned mostly by institutional shareholders, right? Don’t you think they were probably more concerned with shaping their audience to attract advertisers than they were concerned with getting buddy-buddy with NYU professors?
Not necessarily, institutional investors are playing with other people's money. Many of them are happy to accept lower returns in exchange if they get to their personal politics.