Yep, there is a divide between the old people in power who know economics, markets and regulation but have no idea how "technology" works, and the young voters who understand the technology, but without an understanding of how the economics work.
In summary, economics is hard. But making something (internet/web) increasingly unusable is just pure ignorance.
Oh, definitely! Those in power don't understand that much of economics, and those voting don't really understand that much of technology.