Online Reputation Scanners and Cleaners
This is from Reputation.com Web site: "How should we live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing? Reputation.com comes to the conversation with recommendations and predictions for asserting control (New York Times)". Did anybody used Reputation.com, or their competitors, and if yes, what is your experience was? If you did not use any of these companies, what is your opinion about them?
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This is a great question.
My response is based on my Personal Opinion and News Analysis.
I am not going to claim that ALL ‘Reputation Management’ companies are bad, but I’ve yet to encounter an honest one.
I am a whistle-blower, I am notorious. It is kind of infamy doing what I am doing, my life has been threatened by multiple principles of ‘Reputation Management’ companies. In fact, I have one of the planning sessions to kill me if I ever went public on tape. They have attempted to discredit and destroy my reputation as I been the only outspoken critic trying to expose what is taking place in this industry.
A group of 'Reputation Management' companies are using an sql injection technique which when used in a specific way is able to "deindex" a specific web page from the manjor search engine index's.
Ripoffreport.com and Goolges blogger.com were the initial targeted because wealthy clients and large corporations paid the highest fee to be able to silence the voice of victims who had spoken out on their personal blog or filed a report on social justice websites.
Doctor’s, Lawyers and Corporations whom had wronged others were called ‘whales’ because of their propensity to pay to silence their alleged victims, through what they called Google-Cide. These, Reputation Management Companies were searching for clients on places such as RateMds.com ‘Wall of Shame’. They would offer to remove the negative content from Google, Bing, Yahoo and any blogs located on blogspot.com.
Let me place this into context:
A little boy left without his mother sends balloons to heaven with notes hoping she’s okay. And the unqualified cosmetic surgeon who cost his mom her life? Dr.----------- has been suspended for two years and banned from ever operating alone again. Ensuring she never practiced again was the penalty advocated by the lawyer for the College of Physcians and Surgeons. It was the sentence sought by the little boy’s father and the rest of the family of his late Mom. “When (my son) grow’s up, “the dad wrote in his victim impact statement, “I want to be able to look him in the eye, explain to him what happened and let him know that although this was a terrible, tragic loss, the system did not fail him in how it dealt with these doctors.” He hoped for too much.
The doctor had been reported on ripoffreport.com, her business dropped according to the ‘Reputation Management’ company by nearly 50%. That is when they ( Online Reputation Management Company) landed a ‘whale’ the doctor paid $18,000 down payment for the financing of the the ‘Cool Technique’ or ‘Cool Trick’.
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
It is alleged censorship being performed by a conspiracy in the private sector, growing in scope and is ultimately going to end up with conspirators creating defamatory content en mass against people and business's in general on the internet, which they will then offer to remove for a price.
As quoted in the Fox news article:
“ I would love to run an underground campaign that says ‘Google is trying to destroy your reputation’ an executive on the call is heard saying ‘I like the idea of the more popular you are the more dangerous it is and giving people the scare tactic of the more exposure you have the faster it is for your enemies to attack you.”
“ I think there’s a whole other campaign where we can break the parents” the executive continued “Send them a picture of their kid with a gun in his mouth -- Google did it. Little Johnny is going to commit Google-cide Can you stop it?”
In my opinion from having been in this meeting, it became clear that they viewed an internet full of defamatory content would be a gold mine for any ‘Reputation Management’ company that could easily hide or remove that same defamatory content for a ‘ransom’ as they called it. They were moving towards creating an algorithm that would create randomized postings using scraped names of business’s and people.
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but what about the real cheeseballs and dirtbags that do have shady records on line?
Can they get themselves 'cleaned up' for the next run?
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I filled out the info on reputation.com and the results really were just a sales pitch.I did not go further.
I think if you Google yourself and your business regularly- you could do the same thing for yourself.
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I will suggest it will take atleadt 5 years for these services to gain a stronghold
