social media is replacing the traditional ways of communicating ideas (which have been tv, radio, newspapers, and school curriculum & textbooks)...but now the elites cannot really control social media, as much as they want to control social media and as much as they try to control social media...they cannot.....
and control of what goes into young minds is THE most important commodity for elites...shaping young minds is how the elites control the future ("Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it," Proverbs 22 6)
and the elites don't like losing that control...they want to set the future path for youth; they want to create the adults that youth will become....and so the elites are trying to restrict channels of communication into young minds that the elites cannot control...they are doing that by demonizing social media...
"The dominant ideology is the ideology of the dominant class" Karl Marx
The "elite" is very much descentralized and unconscious/semi-conscious.
There's absolutely zero risk for the power structures on current social media: ideology is 100% ok: banks are fine, scam and fraud is rampant, people are surely working (some of them have their main goal in life to progress in a carreer in a big company), people are surely studying (academia is the brain of the elite), people are still bragging against elites with near-zero effect and then when they get older finally bowing their heads and accepting "reality", religion is fine, harry potter is awesome etc etc.. Not to mention social media itself is owned by the elite and has some important functions - which are working perfectly fine.
and control of what goes into young minds is THE most important commodity for elites...shaping young minds is how the elites control the future ("Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it," Proverbs 22 6)
and the elites don't like losing that control...they want to set the future path for youth; they want to create the adults that youth will become....and so the elites are trying to restrict channels of communication into young minds that the elites cannot control...they are doing that by demonizing social media...