BEATTIE: …" I think he needs to understand exactly what he's getting into. He's stepping into the war zone in a way that he might not even be able to imagine at this point. As you point out, the entire regime depends on holding a total monopoly over what Elon rightly calls the global public square. Anyone who threatens that steps into territory that is not a normal financial realm. Twitter is not a normal company. The question of who controls Twitter is far more consequential than, say, who controls Home Depot, even though Home Depot is vastly larger as a company. And so Elon needs to be prepared for what's coming. It would be one of the few things that is not fake and not performative. It would amount to effectively a declaration of war on our corrupt and illegitimate regime."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-taking-over-twitter-declaration-war-regime-journalist
If Elon went in and shut down all the bot and paid accounts, would twitter fall silent?
Pretty bad when you can’t tell if you’re talking to a person or a bot. I’ve had some conversations with actual people that make me wonder how anyone could be so blind and ignorant to what’s going on in the political world.