It's pretty clear Elon doesn't believe in digital sovereignty (just look at Tesla's, Tesla maintains full control of your vehicle after you "buy" it).
Complete speculation here but as he's obviously a smart guy so I assume he's thought about it and it and it seems like his view is that there will always be some central authority controlling things. So instead of trying to fight that, he wants to have as much of that power as possible so he can control things the way he wants instead of the way someone else wants. For example Twitter is still chalk full of censorship but they're censoring things slightly differently than they used to (more in line with Elon's world view).
Part of this is probably true in that there will always be large power discrepancies as people are not equally capable and will use different strategies to acquire power, which will have varying rates of success, and they will then build motes around that power. But I think where he is wrong is to give up entirely on decentralizing power and maintaining free and open competition for it.
I also think there's not an actual reason to expect he would want to help achieve these goals. Elon is a grifter. Remember when those kids were stuck in that cave and Elon inserted himself into the situation and was acting like he was gonna come up with a solution? He gets in on whatever is trending and uses it to promote himself. When Bitcoin is pumping he'll do some random pro Bitcoin virtue signalling like accepting payments at Tesla for a month or tweeting out some anti-fiat memes. He'll go one about how AI is going to enslave us all, only to make a completely closed off AI that he controls instead of making something open that individuals could actually take true ownership of and shape how they want / use to defend themselves against malicious AIs.
TLDR: I respect a lot of what Elon has accomplished but I'm also not into this fanboy shit, we need to accept he ain't gonna help with this. If anything he might he'll actively hurt.
ZACHARY.SUNFORGE / Zachary Sunforge
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