If you want the responsibility to be properly deflected, you should now call Musk an "DC bureaucrat". That's technically what he is now after all.

SV startup culture created these monsters, they're not absolved (and by extension neither is YC and HN). It validated "move fast and break things", as well as "ends justify the means" mentality. Who cares what laws and norms you trample on as long as it advances your cause, because your cause is saving the world. It's cute when it's 4 scrappy 20-something hackers in a garage working on an app, but it's metastasized into Bond villain danger when it comes to Musk.

I've been consistently pro privacy and tried to withdraw as much of my 2010's data as possible once learning.

So yes, i will cry privacy concern about a government audit from a non-auditer. Where is the GOA in all of this?

I agree, the irony is astounding morally, but legally easily explainable: the constitution protects us from the government, not private enterprise.

IMO, the government should protect us from private enterprise, when said enterprise becomes predatory.