"Controlled Opposition," is a long-used ploy in the Reality Sweepstakes.
In terms of our present electronic culture and the subject of this forum/thread.....
Opposition is counter to the Bill O' Swill that has been Flotsam Floated via mainstream mass media as to what sufferers are dealing with...
Controlled is appearing to empathize, harmonize with sufferers, while offering dead-end alternatives/courses of action-investigation/options, deflecting away from: