WaPo article: https://archive.is/wip/sgViP
Company owner Elon Musk tweeted that the change was a “temporary emergency measure” to deter third-party scraping of data from the social media platform. “We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!” Musk wrote.
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He is the essence of the self-actualized Prince, exploiting natural human hierarchy vs. the Borg collective System that liberal orthodoxy has imposed on us through The Managerial Class. Neither is wholly positive. One path can seem beholden to the whims of inconsistent, amoral dictators, while the other acts like a chicken with its head cut off at times, yet somehow always inches towards the proverbial cliff of absolute degeneracy, directed by human vice and cowardliness.
These are two distinct paths that humanity can take and neither one will compromise with the other. I - and I think most of the dissident Right - prefer the former, while the Left is obviously under the spell of the latter.
It may just be as you said that he's a vocal nerd but I think that speaks to naturally appealing aspirations in all of us, which collectivism stamps out in the cradle.
I've simply come around to the "pitchfork solution" hypothesis which states that any socio-political problem ought to be solvable by a pitchfork waving mob congregating in front of your house.
We are unaccustomed to that being a solution to our problems because we have resolved that power must be so diffuse that it cannot be. Yet the drive to send a pitchfork waving mob to someone's home remains, waiting for someone to pick up that crown currently lying in the mud.
That only works when the regime is on your side.