Often implemented as a reverse psychology assessment, one of the "tools" one can use in order to persuade somebody that he's wrongdoing [by NOT doing what he's been told], is to persuade him that "the people say so". Chances are most people do not understand that one of the most noteworthy "digital assets" of a political campaign manager nowadays is, well... Google.
The following article explains how this is possible, in a very clarified manner, by utilizing a contrivance that fully automates the aforementioned "trick" of "the people say so", but on steroids. On the other hand, you didn't really expect that what you voted for, would've been what you were promised...
Right?
http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2015/08/internet-search-engines-may-be-influencing-electionsThere is some rationality tied into this. Humans historically have survived by banding together with the tribe. They understand they survive if their tribe does. This is why Trump got booed when he asserted his right to bolt independent if he is denied the Republican nomination.
And this is why politics is entirely dysfunctional once the tribe becomes too large. Thus my retort to tabnloz claims that we can't get justice employing the State that created the injustice in the first place (not without causing some other injustice, because you can't do just one thing). The generative essence is lack of degrees-of-freedom, which ties right back into inviolable Second Law of Thermodynamics and the requirement that entropy is irreversible and trending to maximum. I explain it another way. If time were reversible, past = present = future thus there is no change and thus no life.
Of course life may just be an illusion of some local friction. On the whole, the entropy of the Universe might be constant but we'd have to be outside the Universe (be able to navigate spacetime at a rate greater than the speed-of-light) to falsify it thus the catch-22 (due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle). But for us to have our lives as we perceive them, then we must have relativity (due to friction).
So fight as you want against the free market which marching towards greater entropy, greater maximum division-of-labor, and greater decentralization, but nature always wins on a sufficient spacetime scale. Coasian local orders persist until they don't, e.g. the Google effect you cited.
P.S. I added to my prior post.
Edit: what I am trying to accomplish is that we can get economies-of-scale on fungible money and knowledge internet on the internet (the large community) while adding decentralization (end-to-end principle) and anonymity, so that we have the economies-of-scale of large community while also enabling our local community to resist the subjugation of degrees-of-freedom by the power vacuum of the collective. I believe if we can achieve this, we will have a glorious Knowledge Age. Whether I am correct or not, it is this ideal that is pushing me to work so hard at age 50. Hope some people will join if I can get something tangible completed.