Forget Publicists, All The Cool Kids Have Online Reputation Managers
from the are-you-serious? dept
It's been well-documented that Google has become something of the mythical permanent record teachers warned you about as kids. There are plenty of stories about people losing jobs or discovering dubious information about dates using Google. A few years back, services popped up claiming that they could scrub your online record clean -- though, how successful such services could be was certainly called into question. However, it appears that those services have morphed into a new, somewhat scary, category called online reputation management. While it's to be expected that corporations might have people monitoring online reputations, it's quite another thing to have individuals hire firms to do the same thing. From the description in the article, it sounds like this involves a combination of search engine optimization, plus legal bullying of anyone who says something you don't like. If anything, that sounds like a recipe for more trouble, but you can see how it would appeal to those who are unhappy with how they're perceived online. Obviously, it's no fun to have something bad about you exposed online, but efforts to suppress that information have a decent likelihood of backfiring and serving to highlight that information. I wonder if these online reputation managers have malpractice insurance for when that happens?
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What to do to fix CDA 230?
Then the anonymous libel just gets left up on the site forever.
It'd be a much better system that if the original poster can't be found then the webhost has to be willing to take down the material or to defend it in court. It'd still take a subpoena to get IP addreses, just change the rules when the OP can't be found. Otherwise sites like ED and AutoAdmit can knowingly profit from libel, and intentionally be jerks about removing stuff.
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This is what I need -- Online Reputation Managemen
Because I have had such a terrible time getting a job, and think either my by now lousy credit or the government or some kind of corporate or Republican network is "badmouthing" me, I think this is exactly the kind of reputation protection service that someone like myself could benefit from. Have my medical records been leaked? Are former employers bad talking me? Is it the absence of former agencies for whom I claim a year or more of work here or there? What with John McCain running as "the Manchurian Candidate" having spent years unsupervised in thrall to his North Vietnamese prison guards, did you know that Americans will not even be considered for a federal job in the U.S. Government nowadays, if you have travelled overseas for more than two weeks within the ten years of your background that they check? Also, those government jobs with benefits pay much better than private sector jobs, on the average. No wonder my private enterprise efforts at employment are so frustrating. Pretty soon, America will have no advantages and every disadvantage internationally, in business and economics and leading new enterprises and worker satisfaction levels. Case in point? Why, myself, of course! http://www.myspace.com/italosuave (check out my blogs) and http://www.youtube.com/mdelcamp1 (check out my channel(s)
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Filling a void in the law
Looks like ReputationDefender is filling a pretty big void left by the law. Can we fix the loophole in CDA 230 instead? There has to be protection for legitimate whistleblowers, but some way for innocent victims to get recourse.
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http://www.doneseo.com/serm/
Here's some recent press about our firm.
http://www.tbrnews.com/articles/2008/01/31/business/business.txt
Jeff Henderson
Business Development
DONE! SEO
www.doneseo.com
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Don't belittle this issue
Some of these people are quite arrogant in dealing with people they regard as powerless individuals. It's quite satisfying to see them backdown when lawyers become involved.
We need better laws.
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Think about it, only companies need marketing, everyone needs reputation management.
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