These sorts of things happen all the time in the Twilight Zone. Talking dolls and electric shavers have also taken on sentience, self-propulsion and a murderous instinct.
True, Rod Serling himself was a lefty in terms of 1959, but he would have absolutely no use whatsoever for the shut down of free speech that is taking place today.
Yes, but the original Twilight Zone was a riff on the existential darknesses of the human condition.
Jordan Peele’s version tries to give tendentious SWJ themes that same moral weight.