I think he was… wrong-ish?

I think he didn’t see the forest through the trees.

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He was scared of government abuse of surveillance, as he should be. He was scared of a North Korean style surveillance state, basically.

But, IIRC, he didn’t fear corporate abuse enough.

He couldn’t imagine the attention trap the internet would turn into, but I think the signs were there, and he couldn’t imagine that all this would come out and people would choose to reject privacy, anyway. Especially at the scale they do in corporate software.

In other words, I think he should’ve been more worried about a post-truth corporate state than a censored, oldschool dictatorship, as the former seems to be what were barreling towards.