It’s time for the next moon shot. We can have an Internet For The People.
Let the current owners of the Internet keep it, along with all of the corruptible social media companies, search engines, fake users, and AI involvement.
We need to build a new Internet where only humans can participate, and genuine everyday people at that, not social engineers and propaganda machines. It’s time to build an Internet For The People, from the seed of innocence that reflects our humanity, rather than the seed of control and manipulation which has given us the current Internet which distorts human relations.
The Internet For The People would entail:
-Search engines that include ALL results and which cannot be manipulated to hide or distort topics the searcher is looking for.
-Message boards and forums which are impervious to concerted manipulation tactics. PR firms and the like could not use real people as proxies for manipulating public discourse.
-Blocking of any and all AI involvement. If users wish to engage with AI, they may use the old Internet. Humanity must have a free will choice to contribute to AI learning or not.
-Incompatibility with bots; meaning bot farms and fake users would be instantly recognized and barred from participating.
-Transparency. The human user base would know how this new Internet works and nothing would be hidden.
-Respect for human dignity by not harvesting any data in any form from the users.
These are some basic tennents. What is your wish list for the New Internet?
This vision needs help to flesh out the details from our technology ambassadors. Imagine what we can accomplish when our best and brightest start working for us instead of them.