After Elon Musk exposed his BBC interviewer James Clayton’s use of “hate speech” claims to advance the establishment’s interest in political censorship, one of the interesting reactions was from Paul Graham, the influential founder of Silicon Valley’s most successful accelerator, Y-Combinator:

People who've grown up in this new world may think "Weren't things always this way?" No they were not. A generation ago, even the most powerful people used to try to stay on the right side of journalists. Very few dared to be openly contemptuous of them.

— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 13, 2023