If not accepting Bitcoin, then he's giving censorship powers to the payment providers oligopoly. Let's see what's gonna be the collateral kill here. Likely the freedom of speech.

This is a flat out lie by Musk. Paid blue checks are impersonated all the time, so it is not effective. The thing that it is effective for is doxxing its users to X and their spook overlords.

Surveillance is the goal, and bot elimination is the lie to sell it.

True! (Sincerely) I’m sure the personally identifiable information he will collect with this policy has no impact on its implementation.

Obviously not about the bots. Something else going on.