The War On Internet Broadcasting

Week Twelve

The Internet's Lost Promise And How America Can Restore It, written by Karen Kornbluh and published by Published by the Council on Foreign Relations, highlighted the inundation of the internet and the series of events which document the tragedy of it continuing to be used as a weapon to spread false information and hurt populations of people in the process. As a Senior Fellow for Digital Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, she writes about the Internet having a “Lost Promise” to “Power the Powerless”. She maintains that while historically other forms of public broadcasting communication have had to abide by strict rules and regulations, the internet has remained ungoverned in the United States and “public policy has not kept up with protecting U.S. democracy in the digital age”. Despite this, Europe has managed to develop a systematic way of handling general and political data protection with regulations. She suggest Congress should implement the “Honest Ads Act” which would apply the same rules television uses on disclosing the funding behind political advertising while adopting from the European regulations policy.

Without a doubt, it is clear that after nearly 30 years of the World Wide Web, little progress has been made to protect the general public from being both extorted of their personal data and violated by false information. With artificial intelligence becoming increasingly sophisticated to survey and extrapolate information, it is imperative to have an Internet Broadcasting Compliance Act which endorses and enforces world protection of politics and the users alike. But until then, it is equally important that users exercise caution on giving credence to what they read or make readily available for others to read, by using discretionary common sense.