"Right now the social engineers are double-dipping in a way that will eventually give the alliance of corporate plutocrats and secretive government agencies the ability to fully control the public's access to ideas and information."

This. It's all about the control of ideas and information. It's why they want internet control and censorship. Control the narrative. If you can't talk about a revolution how can you organize one? If you disrupt the social media networks you're disrupting social networks, and if people can't communicate or organize or share ideas you've effectively silenced them and you can control the people before they get to be a problem.

Honestly this mass social media purge actually seemed a little like Bangladesh recently where the government shut down and censored websites and the internet so the student protests and government abuse wouldn't get filmed and shared.

The other issue is that these different corporations have now launched a coordinated assault to silence non-mainstream voices. Where before you could get banned on one platform and share your message on another, now these main platforms are working together (with government) to censor any voices or ideas that are not their own. And you can be sure that they'll target the soft targets or outliers (Jones) to get the people on side and then they'll go all out on the control and censorship.