HOT TAKE: Elon Musk would be in jail if he were born in Nepal

When something new arrives, instead of working out how to govern it, we ban it. Then we never get around to understanding it.

If Elon Musk had been born in Kathmandu instead of Pretoria, he would’ve had a Cyber Bureau file long before he had a company. PayPal moved money outside the banking system, which is a case under Foreign Exchange Regulation Act. Starlink runs on an unpermitted satellite spectrum. The crypto he keeps championing has been illegal in Nepal since 2021. We would have criminalised the man before anyone got the chance to believe in him.