The article talks as if it was different before Musk, Thiel, etc and the Silicon Valley wasn't asserting increasingly dystopian control of the internet for the

The article talks as if it was different before Musk, Thiel, etc and the Silicon Valley wasn't asserting increasingly dystopian control of the internet for the sake of its shareholders, from limiting what people can do to literally socially-engineering content consumption. The 'non-libertarian' part of SV even collaborated with the earlier administration to 'shape opinion'. Not that SV was different a decade or two ago either - they were still doing everything they are doing today but 20 years ago there wasn't a possibility to exert this much control.