There's two reasons - TWO - for the so-called Conservative Movement. One is equality/civil rights regading race, women, and LGBT, and the other is science. The Scopes Monkey Trial gave conservatism a big BIG boost.
As you've amply seen, they've been consistently anti-science, which includes the web. Conservatism is, by definition, about allegiance and conformity and, yes, anti progress, and is exceedingly monolithic in what it believes our common culture should be, down to religion, which, as we know, is Protestantism.