That old (or in the big picture, relatively new) dynamic is ending. Eternal economic growth is out, growth in power is in. And even in terms of consumerism, its not a bad development in the long run - ten or so big companies in charge of everything with every small or medium size business gone...
In short... most likely to kill off most people/have them die naturally without reproducing and then control the rest so that they dont do stupid shit.
No idea what "Talk Radio" is but all the censorship Google and other tech giants started to do in the last ten years or so is of course no surprise, its a common part of late-stage liberalism, the monopoly phase happening when there is nothing that regulates companies from being massively...