Elon Musk is a lesson in the dangers of unchecked corporate leaders | Siva Vaidhyanathan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : He will crow about the value of free expression, while happily denying it to workers, critics and victims of harassment when he has the whim.
50% : However, as long as we allow essential public, intelligence, and military systems to be outsourced and controlled by private actors, we risk having lives destroyed and hopes of a better future dashed by the whims of an unstable egomaniac.
45% : Some companies have risen in power and influence in the world by cornering the market on some essential resource - as SpaceX has with low-altitude-internet-satellite service, or has controlled enough revenue to become the source of corrupting power that instigates a coup or props up a brutal, murderous regime, like British Petroleum did in Iran in 1953 and the United Fruit Company did in Guatemala in 1954.

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