Dang. Should've bought Twitter. Just was busy.

And Elon is smart...

You could put 60 billion into some purported "free speech platform" and you'd be wasting about 59.5 billion of your investment.

Just because you can build something doesn't mean you can get anyone to use it. Buy out what they use, and you solve problem #1. Then, you can address #2 with users that remain, and maybe #3 bring new users back.

It is akin to trying to build a "new windows operating system" to compete with Microsoft. It would be REALLY stupid to invest 50 billion into that. They could make something that works perfectly and still only capture 10% or less of market share, because people keep using what they already know.

Buy out Microsoft though, then rebuild it, and you have a viable chance to be the industry leader with your vision with OS going forward. Same/Same.