"Thinks"..... do we think this is the case?

John Searle captured this conundrum quite nicely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Kindly recall the predicament of Aaron Schwartz that led us to this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz

He broke into a network though

Incredible saga! DFV is hacking wall street. The new CAT (consolidated audit trail) implementation just came online as well.

The "Twitter Revolution" and the promise of changing the world to spread democracy seem so quaint now. These are tools for surveillance and crushing dissent.