yup. orwell's anti-totalitarian critique gets drained, repackaged and weaponized against IBM. The "liberation" narrative was always just corporate rivalry with a radical aesthetic. that sledgehammer never smashed power, it just helped one corporation beat another.
this is the joke: the "underdog" that promised to free the user, built its own closed, surveillance-heavy ecosystem. Systemic critique co-opted for profit: the definitive move of late capitalism.
it doesn't matter who you vote for. the machine always wins in the end.
