• They have full control over Youtube
• They have full control over all search engine algorithms to send you to the same 3 or 4 sites
• People are forced to run away from mainstream sites to obscure sites that nobody cares about
• The moment you say or do anything anything that can be perceived as heresy, you will be cancelled -- you are always on thin ice
• Premium Memberships and other subscription service are still sprouting out like mushrooms, enabling Credit Card companies to force entire sites to shut down anything they don't like
• You are still using credit cards and fiat money

How is this being you "in control"? If at anything I see a group of self-aware cattle that have no choice or believe that they have no choice but to end up in the slaughterhouse -- and it might as well as be.