Don't forget about bad science, too, FoodForThought. I'm not saying that the control brokers won't try for it. I'm simply saying that it won't work. It won't succeed.

here's an example of purposeful bad science:

The latest rounds of polio-like paralysis in children apparently has researchers STUMPED!

Stumped? WHAT A JOKE! It's all in the vaccines, you idiots. Oh wait, they already know that, but don't want to admit it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/mystery-paralysis-in-children-is-perplexing-parents--and-researchers/2015/03/02/20e1113a-b69d-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html

Awareness is the antidote. Simply the awareness. Thus, the biggest threat is the impending net neutrality slam dunk. But I contend that the conscious knowledge is already too far disseminated. The cat's out of the bag. Consciousness is about to explode once the shackles get locked in place.