One could say “bots’ colluded in 2016 from all enemies of the Republic domestic and foreign. If I could, I would destroy the social media giants yesterday for what they did and what they do. Hiding behind the First Amendment is no excuse.
George Orwell warned us via his dystopian novel, “1984.”
Orwell knew not future technology but was pretty accurate in his vision of such. 1984 is here and now. Orwell was right. He knew what we would do with this technology.
Oddly the thing Orwell got wrong was his vision was a centralized oppressive government, which we do have. He did not envision a politicized non government such as google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. as and integral part of government suppression of the free flow of ideas and truth. On that point Ann Ryand got it exactly correct in her great and also dystopian novel, “Atlas Shrugged.”
Damn shame Ann Ryand was not married to Orwell. The book they could have written together would have been the best of both and exceeding boths individual and great talents.
I wonder if they ever meet each other? It would have been a conversation most worthy of listening too.