The internet was invented by the military. It functions on a consumer level as a personalised Skinner box.

I think it's illusory that it draws people to the left - that seeming effect is just because leftist ideology has intrinsic mass appeal, which of course necessitates the infiltration, policing, control of the medium of mass communication, just like town hall gatherings. So far at least the internet doesn't seem to have resulted in any real world gains for left wing movements, or maybe I'm ignorant of such an occurrence?