These are not consequences of technology, but human nature.<p>What differ developed countries, they got technologies much earlier, when they where expensive and/or hard to achieve (like broadband internet with low latency, where not achievable on >90% of 1st world territory), personal computer costs like automobile, so internet become means of communication for elite.<p>- In 1990th, when you communicate via internet this automatically assume, you have high iq and good education.
Elite difference, they intentionally spent significant resources to achieve awareness, to structure information, that's cause of search engines appearance.<p>When smartphones wide distributed, they lowered the bar very much, so appear new reality in which most new users where not elite, but ordinary persons, not initiative, with average education.
But western elites already where capable to moderately good deal with new reality, and to save adequate information infrastructure.<p>China jumped over elite internet period just into period of average persons, Proletariat, and Chinese elite was not ready, it is just too young, not mature for such trials, consider this period as information chaos.<p>I'm in Ukraine, exUSSR country, and see very similar things, but fortunately, our society resists to totalitarianism and grow, because of this we have much less chaos, but we still suffer of problem that no information lasts long enough.<p>I have few ideas on how western elites solve this, and could share and discuss, but at the moment I have not much success in implementation if my ideas.