Why are College Professors Facilitating an Agenda Against the Internet?

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First of all, you can't cite the whole "they don't like plagiarism" thing, because it doesn't take an idiot to realize that plagiarism is stupid and utterly pointless whether you get caught or not, and that it's for sheeple, but then it's been my experience that most MyLot users don't read what people write anyhow. Furthermore, it's getting much beyond that, and if this wasn't the case then the question would never have been brought up. For those of you who don't go to college, or just aren't the very observant type, here's the basic rundown: Pretty much any professor or teacher despises Wikipedia because they claim it has no standard of validity because "just anybody can edit it". They ignore, of course, the fact that Wikipedia will just edit things right back to the way they were if anybody "vandalizes" their webpages, but whatever. Some universities appear to have their own online data sources where you can search for articles, but in many cases you cannot view a digital copy of these writings and must hope that your library can reserve and obtain for you a physical copy, which will take up time you don't have for writing out 60-pages per semester. In addition, you have to use a special log-in when attempting to access these data sources from an off-campus location. All of these unnecessary inconveniences seem to point to one thing: That professors really, really don't like the idea of information becoming more accessible. I mean, I can understand not using Wikipedia since they leave much to be desired anyway (thereby negating any replies that focus one-dimensionally on that alone), but apart from that? All hands point towards bad blood between a bunch of people employed as college professors and the inanimate electronic data storage system that is the internet. A man came to speak to our class recently, stating that with the usage of the internet, people feel they can know more (well, for some reason he believes people think they know everything, quite the bizarre claim), but that they have an "amnesia" for knowing anything (sorry, bit fuzzy on the exact wording on the latter part as I was still confused about the "knowing everything" remark). I for one don't understand how you can think you know everything and still use the internet, but I no longer have any doubt that our college professors still perceive us as immature high school students who only take one class per semester and need to live vicariously through their own personal teachings. Why do educational professionals seem to have a fear regarding the accessibility of knowledge and information? Are they trying to somehow claim some kind of authority over the internet by first denouncing its worth? Why do they constantly, yet subtly, blame the internet as the source of all problems like some form of propaganda advertising? Why do colleges hate the internet? Are professors aspiring for some sort of one-sided political debate against the internet? One thing for certain is, the internet IS a viable source of easily-obtainable information. Information SHOULD be free, as the more things people know the better off we'll be.