I remember the subtitles for Smash Mouth - Walking on the Sun said "It's like kitty fat, it retracts before impact" which was nuts, I had the CD, and it was "any fad". They didn't use to vet subtitles on MTV. There were orders, but that's all I remember.
Attitudes about gays and transgenders actually got worse coming from the 1960s into the 1980s. The sexual revolution actually created a generation far more open and accepting, and the culture that lead to things like the Satanic panic, war on drugs, and resurgence of patriotism and religiosity in the United States actually made things worse for gay and trans.
This is a terrible analogy, and really should be a dead idea. We absolutely need leftist dissent on X because the platform is that important and has that much reach.
This isn't a fair system, we can't disappear from the world's largest social media company over a principled stance, we need to be present and visible.
I'm against this because it will always get abused, and who gets to determine what is acceptable hate? Is an atheist flag religious hate when religiosity becomes socially popular? Do State flags become hate symbols when their people want to secede? Someone's terrorist is another person's hero, and it's all relative - we're seeing this with the changing sentiment about Israel and Palestine.
I got a ping off anxiety thinking about 'One Chance' the game where the end of the world was caused by exactly this, more specifically the end of all life.
I literally remember when sites like Reddit, Amazon, and even Google went down. We're so used to crazy uptimes that it's easy to forget that real servers and infrastructure have real problems.
I honestly believed this was going to be where things went as well, the fact that it didn't and they chose an honestly bizarre way to handle it really took the joy out of the present day stuff.
That wasn't the early days though, maybe for you, but that's still pretty recent ( within last 15 years )