You getting publicly angry about it diminishes the effect that very rich and powerful people have spent a lot of money, time and effort to achieve. Therefore it makes perfect sense for them to directly intervene with installed heads of systems (politicians, power centers, all the way down to forum moderators). It just boils down to, what are you, I or any of us going to do about it (do not answer this publicly).
Ok I get what you are saying, that smartness exists (or doesn't) before logging on, and that is the determining factor of what one would do with their time, whether to learn or vegetate - and this applies to both online and offline.
I have to strongly disagree with you on the smarter part. I recall dialup connecting to old BBS and learning all kinds of things from how to pick locks, how to do basic hacks, SQL injection, legal tax avoidance and many other things.
I used to get most of my dates from Yahoo chat, learned how to trade stocks using Yahoo finance simulator, and learned how to build websites using geocities.
I learned a level of internet safety that modern users have no idea about, I know what is really lurking around in the net, learned to have the thickest "online skin" because I've been called it all a billion times before.
I could honestly go on and on.
I don't personally trade in crude after learning about the sheer volume that is parked just offshore waiting for amicable futures and/or political reasons. This guarantees the holders are going to wreck you at any given time, akin to a crypto rug pull.
Removed for being blind to subversion.