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I'm not close enough to silicon valley to know, what I do know is the early internet felt very libertarian. I'd say it broadly changed in the past decade and es

I'm not close enough to silicon valley to know, what I do know is the early internet felt very libertarian. I'd say it broadly changed in the past decade and especially so post 2015 say. If I had to guess, I'd say all the libertarian types are increasingly moving to crypto stuff where they can build and do what they want in a way that's increasingly difficult on the modern web.

adventured 5y ago
It only appeared libertarian, because the early years of the Web was so unregulated, especially compared to the rest of the economy. The companies that were supposedly representative of that ethos, at that place in time, were nowhere near libertarian, they're all quite left of center without exception. Google was one of those companies in the first ~6-8 years of their existence and yet they were never anything remotely close to libertarian, the founders and early employees didn't hold those beliefs. The idea the early Web was libertarian was projected onto those companies by the media, that's all it was. The Bay Area didn't magically switch from libertarianism to socialism in ten years, it was just a moment of media projection garbage.