I was driving home in all my misery yesterday – miserable about the state of affairs these days when I had an idea (I’m long on ‘ideas’ but sadly short on execution it seems). The idea was in response to a radio ad I heard for this Reputation Defender Company providing a service which claims that the product "Allows you to take control of your online information in 4 easy steps"
It was Step # 3 – defend your reputation that really caught my eye "We defend you against attacks, rumors and distortions online." Further, it will help "Suppress inaccurate information and protect your reputation".
All this for $99 a year! We may need to take out a few more ‘extra’ subscriptions given the size of the problem.
I’m not feeling well enough to go mine the horrible things that are said about Liberals and Progressives by the rabid RW haters right now. We have all seen and heard enough venom, threats, and emasculating comments against Democrats and the Democratic Party to make us all sick. The (what should be contradictory) simultaneous Socialist/Fascist labels hurled at the president and other Democrat leaders stick! Despite the seeming nuttiness, the nuttiest stuff grows legs and wings and creeps and flies through the InterTubes and into the dumbed-down receptors of far too many nodding ditto-heads.
This Reputation Defender Company has arisen because individuals feel a need to fight the rising power of misinformation and disinformation which is ‘catapulted’ as propaganda into the Commons each day – we need this sort of activity to be performed in the public eye so the normal non-politically obsessed citizen can see what is happening and perhaps be more discerning with the propaganda consumed.
So who’s gonna chip in? How many copies do we need?