"Think of society as a large ballroom floor full of people buzzing about from one end to the other. In each of the four corners of the room, four "respected" speakers with mighty bullhorns scream out false information from atop elevated platforms. Unbeknown to the stirring "masses," the Big Four, though seemingly situated far apart from one another, are actually all members of the same elite club and working in concert. They are part of a Mafia-like network of Society Shapers who incestuously associate and often inter-marry with other such high-end muckety-mucks." [fake news, school, gov, Hollywood]

Twitter is the best example. Ban you for their definition of bad speech and thinking and reward you after you delete it by letting you back on. Carrot and stick.

Crabs in a bucket