[hardnose]

I feel like this response deliberately avoids the point I was making, in favor of kicking up confusion.

He grew up on the internet. At a time when everyone was turning their internet web pages black to protest censorship. At a time when "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" was a slogan touted proudly by technologists and philosophers.

It's not Elon Musk that changed, it seems to me. It's the cultural values on the internet that have changed, and arguably not for the better - more control, more censorship, more centralization.

[teachrdan]

> He grew up on the internet

Elon Musk was born in 1971. He grew up on television.

[hardnose]

So, no thoughts on how Musk's attitude seems remarkably consistent with the speech and actions of the internet's founding minds, I take it?