Giving power to people who traditionally haven't had much power, tends to make those with power nervous.

Arnold Kling has an article at TCS-Tech Control Station about how companies are responding to the interactive and creative power that the Internet and the web have given large numbers of people. He says:

There is a striking generation gap between media empires that were built before the Internet and those that grew up as Web businesses. Companies that were formed on the Internet treat Edge Power as a feature. Traditional media companies treat Edge Power as a bug.