The internet is a dramatic deviation from previous global control mechanisms. Television was the final controlling device of the globalists. It permitted massive brainwashing on a globla scale. Television was one way communication from the power elites to the masses and did not permit collateral dialogue. The internet has created a lateral communication system.
Central control is threatened.
Present western civilization is based on oligopolistic control from teh centre. When that collapses, the organizing principle will be gone with nothing to replace it. When Rome collapsed there was a great reduction in the human population of what was the Empire. When modern economies collapse the consequent human disaster will make the fall of the Roman Empire look like a tea party. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.