The Next New Thing

One idea that I have that could be the next thing is how governments operates the internet. Generally, government push for laws that benefits companies instead of individuals. It seems like individuals has no protections or rights on the internet instead, all big companies has protections against almost anything. Plus big companies has the resources to combat lawsuits against individuals or has the resource to influence how the government operate. There should be a software or program that protect individuals, at least the ones who are most in danger.

Instead of making a new technology that helps out big companies, there should be a program or software system that protect the individuals. For instance, big major music labels or corporations has the protection of the law which is called DCMA. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 protects big companies from individual who are trying to share their productions without the companies permission or has no benefit if people share software, documents, or other intangible items. The only way they can detect is that they implement a software or program where they can track illegal music sharing or downloading.

The government should do the same thing for individuals. Like this article "Judge Throws Out Conviction in Cyberbullying Case" written by Rebecca Cathcart talks about how children who are prone to bullying, are always at risk behind the computer. Children are always at risk of getting threat messages from losers who can't do it in person. So governments should implement a program that can detect people who are bullying against other people. They can implement a program that can detect words that can offense people and see if they are cyberbullying against other people. Cyberbully-ers should have a fine or big consequences for doing it, such as people who illegally download music.