I remember a time back when I still used twitter, thinking: "oh guess I'll follow that dude who created Javascript" then shortly after wondering: "why is there so much stupid shit showing up on my timeline lately?".
That may be the main reason why people use or even create emulators, but there are still legitimate uses for emulators. It's like banning couples from riding the same motorcycle because two people on a bike is usually a robbery.
Last presidential election here in Brazil there were some some traffic light salesman selling towels with the presidential candidates. And they walked around with a score board showing which one had sold more. And they sold a lot more because people didn't want to see their beloved candidate on the losing side.
I'd assume in his case the government already has enough eyes over him that if he were to actually try something they would know it before he even considered sending any threats.
It only got to $3M because the fine increased daily. It started at zero and all he needed to do was follow the court's orders to suspend accounts from users that were breaking the law.
About the claims that X and Starlink are separate entities and one shouldn't be affected by the other: it has since been revealed that it was Starlink who paid the salaries of X's employees.
I use Vivaldi as well but every time I update it I need to change one of it's internal JS files to remove one UI restriction that annoys me: I use two vertical tab bars, one for showing all the tab groups and another for showing the tabs inside the selected group. For some reason Vivaldi limits the width of the two sidebar (combined) to 330px, which is too small for my tastes.
Ok that may take a few years.