It's pretty darn clear we got ops going on in the Vatican and Pakistan. The blackouts are cover. It's also pretty clear @Jack has some serious karma coming to himself and his little business from POTUS. I think it likely that Twitter will be raided but not until the net is largely taken down to prevent a huge barrage of pre-canned tweets from whining about gestapo tactics.
So I think it's likely the net will be taken down in a few days and for a few days to cover some serious ops. That's when and why the EMS will be brought into service. When the net comes back up, twit and goog and fb and the rest their kind will have been cleansed of their censorship and free speech will be back.
It could also be to gather more evidence. They easily have enough to convict, I wonder if they’re looking for additional information for things they missed???
If you’re going to do a full clean of the database or data dump you probably need to turn the servers off to do so......Then again you don’t need to do so for backups??