C. By deciding what to purchase
#1) How are today's communication technologies and communicators different from those Orwell imagined in "1984"
Answer: The technology was used for controlling means by placing telescreens and clandestine microphones everywhere, at work, market places or even in the comforts of their own home. Today's technologies are not used for that purpose.
They did not want slavery to spread.
Because as industrialization grew and spread throughout Europe, competition for raw materials increased. Consequently, some European industrialists encouraged their governments to colonize African countries as a method of guaranteeing sources of raw materials.