Chuck Burr Control System, Education, Government, Internet, Long-Term, Solutions

AI: It’s Time to Protect Us From the Internet

The Internet is like the wild West dominated by a few billionaires, and monopolies that are economically and socially attacking us. With almost no government regulation, anything goes from AI, spying, tracking, echo chambers, unsolicited contact, bots, crypto, price fixing, and election interference. It is time to set boundaries that protect we the people — while we still can.

Guardrails

Communication is the foundation of society. The Internet is a great thing. But we have to prevent it from harming society. Just as we labeled food nutrition, and motion pictures; it’s time to label media to protect knowledge, and privacy.

There is social, and educational interia to change. Will the public be able to separate reality from fake news? Whether it is true or not, the world is as we believe it is. The internet can be used for good and bad. We invented this technological fire. Now we need a fire department, and codes to protect us from malicious use.

If we can find the political will to overcome the oligarchs, government needs to take these actions today:

  1. Label Fact-based News: If a provider is not 100 percent fact-based, it cannot be labeled as news. Instead, it must be labeled as opinion or entertainment. For example, FOX News is propaganda, not vetted fact-based information. FOX is owned by a foreign born billionaire Rupert Murdoch. Read footnote below.[1]
  2. Standardize Labels: Like nutrition labels, media labels should also be standardized in look and wording.
  3. Footnote Sources: Specific fact sources must be given including a link to the original source. An original source is not a magazine article that talk about about a study. The link my be back to the original study. This is especially true for news outlets, health and government officials, and political candidates. Being a government official or candidate does not make one an expert. Only repeatable, peer reviewed studies with statistically significant data samples are valid as fact. These studies must show both their data, math, sampling, and funding source. Otherwise, you made it up.
  4. Location: Show the country and province. There is renewed scrutiny of the physical source location of online accounts. This especially including those that post about American politics. The social media platform X recently launched a feature that displays users’ locations. For example, this revealed that some accounts supporting President Trump and the MAGA movement were not based in the United States. One account called, MAGA Nation, with 400,000 subscribers, is based in Eastern Europe.[2] Hello, Russian election interference?
  5. AI: If content is machine created, or audio dubbed, it should be labeled as artificial intelligence or dubbed or bots. The Federal Trade Commission and The Department of Homeland Security should do much more to protect the validity of information that our citizens receive. Law enforcement should have better tools to track down those who scam the public. This especially includes foreign nationals who scam our elderly.
  6. End Selling Your Information: The practice of selling our online browsing and shopping habits should be illegal. Companies are welcome to advertise, but they cannot do it by spying on us. Facebook and Google are tremendously profitable companies, they will find a way to survive.
  7. End Unsolicited Contact: It should completely be illegal to contact us unrequested by phone, text, or email. End cold calls.
  8. End Internet Access and Search Monopoly. Large online companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, OpenAI, Spotify, Apple Music, Netflix, etc. must be ordered to share their exclusive onramp infrastructure the same way cellular phone companies now must lease network access to wholesalers like Visible and Tello.
  9. End monopolies. Monopolies thrive unchecked throughout our economy. Money controls government, and prevents regulation. The Reagan era monopolies on TV, radio, and newspapers must end. Each should be owned by local nonprofits. Take radio for example. As a result of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Clear Channel has dominated the industry by growing from the prior limit of 40 radio stations owned nationally in the mid-90s, to approximately 1225 stations nationally by 2003. This has efficiencies, but ends local programming, and cripples new music artists. Clear Channel’s centralized programming controls the music for the whole network of over 1200 radio stations.[3] This is a music mafia: Clear Channel, record labels, Spotify, Amazon music, Apple music. No longer can the local DJ browse the new music drawer, and cue up an interesting new artist – like I used to do on KOTO community radio in Telluride, Colorado. I encourage people to support new artists on Bandcamp. Go see live music by artists who actually play instruments. Media conglomerates such as Disney should also be broken up. As I write this, Paramount and Netflix are competing to acquire Warner Brothers. Amazon should not own Whole Foods, sell warehouse technology, cloud services, online retail, and AI. Competition is disappearing from our economy – from movies to agricultural seeds and supplies. Lack of competition increases prices. Break them all up.
  10. Ban certain types of algorithmic price fixing. AI can now use our buying behavior to calculate the maximum amount it can charge us. Companies can now track our purchases, price sensitivity, and purchase even timing to segment us. For example, Instacart can track us across different grocery chains, and raise prices to us individually to the maximum.[4] These grocery chains should be competing against each other. They are now competing against Amazon. Imagine if buyer behavior segmentation were applied to rent and houses. No, this practice should be illegal. Same product, same price.
  11. Cookies OMG! Almost most every website uses them. The defalt must be to “only necessary” cookies for a site to function. Tracking is not functioning. End the popup cookie dialog when you visit a new website. Users must specifically request to be tracked, to sell their browsing and purchase history. Also, compensate users for the mining of their data.
  12. No billionaires. Having this much money effectively creates royalty. The American Revolution was fought to end control by monarchy. Now a hand full of ruthless billionaires use unearned fake stock market income, to create fake news, to create even more wealth. It is revolutionary to consider that we need a wealth limit. The whole discussion above is all tied together, and reining in modern robber barons must be considered as well. Having infinite wealth and influence is not OK. Enough is enough.

As long as we have corrupt government officials that lust for power, none of this will change. They maintain power by manipulating us through endless lies, fake news, and poor education. This is a circular problem. Online companies influence government to prevent regulation. We can’t get them out of government until we limit their control of media, and contributions to political candidates. We must combine protection of the Internet with ending Citizens United; which allows corporations to act like people, and influence elections. Bernie Sanders is right, no billionaires. If one does not think that 10 or 20 million dollars is enough, they have an additionction / insecurity problem: money and power. They are dangerous to society.

We must: Read – Share – Discuss – Act – Try.

[1] It is only personal my observation and opinion, that Rupert Murdoch profits from influencing American opinion, and interferes with American elections. This is from Wikipedia:

Keith Rupert Murdoch was born on 11 March 1931 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [Wikipedia link].

Keith Rupert Murdoch (/ˈmɜːrdɒk/ MUR-dok; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian and American former business magnate, investor, and media mogul.[3][4] Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the United Kingdom (The Sun and The Times), in Australia (The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, and The Australian), in the United States (The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post), book publisher HarperCollins, and the television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and Fox News (through Fox Corporation). He was also the owner of Sky (until 2018), 21st Century Fox (until 2019), and the now-defunct News of the World. With a net worth of US$21.7 billion as of 2 March 2022, Murdoch is the 31st richest person in the United States and the 71st richest in the world according to Forbes magazine.[5] Due to his extensive wealth and influence over media and politics, Murdoch has been described as an oligarch.[6][7][8] [Wikipedia link]

[2] The New York Times. X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Politcal Accounts. November 24, 2025. By Yan Zhuang.

[3] Project Censored. Clear Channel Monopoly Draws Criticism. Author: Jeff Perlstein. Published: April 29, 2010. Updated: July 23, 2024.

[4] YouTube. We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You. More Perfect Union and Consumer Reports. December 9, 2025.

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