There's a dual cause here: illiberalism is increasingly in vogue in our culture and politics, but early internet and tech culture were already heavily skewed to

There's a dual cause here: illiberalism is increasingly in vogue in our culture and politics, but early internet and tech culture were already heavily skewed towards individualism and independent thought: part of this was inevitable with the mainstreaming of the Internet and the fact that the average person is _far_ less comfortable with non-conformity.