So what would Twitter be like if Elon Musk owned it? What the libs fear and the cons covet is the idea that Musk would dismantle Twitter’s health and safety initiative, which seeks to blunt the worst aspects of Twitter in an attempt to . . . make the average user engage with the platform more and thus generate more revenue.

In other words: People are worried (or excited) about Musk bringing all of the mouth-breathing racists, neo-Nazis, and assorted deplorables back from Gab and Parler and Gettr and welcoming them into Twitter like the prodigal Pepe.

Would this be bad for the average user’s experience? Probably. Would you, as a power user of Twitter, even notice the effect of such a change? I kind of doubt it.

Look at it this way: Being a regular participant on Twitter is the equivalent of drinking a cocktail made of Liquid Plumber and battery acid, every day. Would that cocktail be worse if someone also peed in it?

I guess it would, in some sort of theoretical, metaphysical sense. But your GI tract wouldn’t know the difference. It’s getting destroyed either way.