Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk

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It's basically: "If I can't say what I want, when I want, on whatever platform I want, with total impunity, then I'm being silenced/oppressed/persecuted".

Given that you have had an Israeli flag as your avatar ever since Israel started its murderous assault on Gaza, I think I can dismiss your criticisms of Elon Musk for being supposedly "pro-violence" just as easily as I can dismiss every other criticism I've seen you make of a milquetoast conservative for their supposed "racism" or "religious fanaticism".

Twitter / X is a private company, so Elon Musk can do what he wants with it.

Isn't "private companies can do what they want" the standard response liberals come out with whenever someone complains about social media censorship?

Yes it is. So I can use the same argument in this case.

It's surreal seeing liberals tearing their hair out because some social media platform has become about 10% less restrictive than it was before.

A lot of the supposed "pro-Nazi" account on X are just people who point to alleged Jewish over-representation in this or that area of life and wonder out loud if it's good for the rest of us or not.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of fanatical Zionist accounts on X openly calling for Israel's onslaught on Gaza to be even more fierce than it already is, and you won't see NBC complaining about that.

I roll my eyes at liberals who respond to private censorship that they like by appealing to private property, yet when it is conservatives saying things they don't like, suddenly private property is less important than who is right or wrong. Liberals gotta unlearn this Anglo tendency to act like property rights trump morality. People shouldn't face consequences because they said something a site owner doesn't like. They should face consequences for saying openly awful things that only damage society. Its like when little Billy builds a fort and makes it so everyone has to follow all his rules and demands respect whether those rules are good or bad--even if people go there only to take advantage of those rules to do damaging things they can't as easily get away with elsewhere.

"Jews have a disproportionate amount of influence" is one of the oldest, most blatant anti-Semitic talking points. "Wondering out loud if it's good" for non-Jews that Jews have so much influence is anti-Semitic. It is not innocently posing a question from a place of curiosity, humility, and respect. It is an anti-Semitic foot-in-the-door tactic.

This talking point is also one I love to point to to show that there is no acceptable level of socio-economic success for non-white, non-Christians. Forgive the generalized examples:
Mexican-Americans living in poverty? "They shouldn't have come here if all they offer is poverty!"
Asian-Americans get college degrees and enter the middle class? "See? It's not that hard to succeed as a minority! Stop complaining about racism!"
Jewish Americans support each other, build wealth within the capitalist system, value education, and become professionals who make meaningful contributions to society? "Awfully suspicious that those Jews have so much success! They're going to hijack the system to benefit themselves! If the system was really working, then constitution-loving protestants would be the ones with all that success and influence!"

Christian capitalist conservatives firmly believe the capitalist system is fair (or at least more fair than any alternative), and that their religious and political values are the result of their being hard-working and moral. Therefore, if they do not succeed in that system as much as someone else who does not share those values, it is treated as a result of cheating. Hence why conservative politicians tell their base they have been "left behind by the system", yet when liberals also struggle, they just need to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps".

Maybe if conservative red states stopped blaming the Dems, immigrants, coastal elites, and Jews for their problems, they would be able to focus more on improving their own situation.

The never ending overuse of Nazi comparisons is offensive to me. Unless the account is calling for the extermination of a group of people based on how they were born, their religion, or has a bunch of Nazi symbols it is not a pro Nazi account.

But as ronona79 said the idea that Jews have disproportionate influence has a long history of use by people who are prejudiced against Jews and have used the idea to harm Jews. Antisemitism is very different the most prejudices. Most bigotry is based on the notion that “they” are inferior.
Modern antisemitism is based on the idea that Jews who are 0.2 percent of the worlds population have such superior skills that they control the 99.8 percent of the rest of the world.

At this point no matter what the intent anybody who goes there is not going to look good to anybody who not antisemitic.