I've never heard TDD described like this. I cannot even understand how this works from a project standpoint.
"We need a new feature. Todd's written the test already, so everyone just have at it with your fastest implementation; whoever passes first, gets to go to prod!"
A "Ministry of Truth" only works when a force controls all the information and, if global sources of information are controlled the discussion feels moot (from a "putting checks to the government" standpoint).
And absolutely. Corporations legally being people and being "entitled" to "free speech using money" has to be obliterated. It's farcical on its face and enables billionaires to multi-dip on stealing from the populace by siphon away their money and then using those immorally-obtained funds to have an outsized representation as the discretionary force of corporations.
You know how corporations can have a voice? By the people who work in that corporation voting like they already are able to do. That's it.