Donald Trump: Executive Order Against Online Censorship

Civil Society, Commerce, Ethics, Government, IO Impotency, Media

Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1.  Policy.  Free speech is the bedrock of American democracy.  Our Founding Fathers protected this sacred right with the First Amendment to the Constitution.  The freedom to express and debate ideas is the foundation for all of our rights as a free people.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Web Traffic — the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency

Web Traffic: Pay Up or Become Mostly Invisible

GOOD: if you create content that offers value, overtime you will be seen even if the search engines are corrupt.

BAD: manipulating backlinks are a death sentence.

UGLY: Google (and individual Google mechanics with no adult oversight) can do whatever they want to you and there is nothing you can do about it with one exception: pay Google extortion fees and be “protected” … for now.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Google Destroys a Business with Impunity. . .

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Real Estate Firm Wants to Be Real

Digital business listings can be just as lucrative as physical property holdings. The right domain name can sell for thousands and videogames sell digital objects and upgrades in micro transactions. When a digital holding that belongs to you, however, is “stolen” it can be difficult to reclaim it. The Fisher Group shares how this happened to them in the blog post, “Google Gave Away Our Business Listing To A Competitor And Our Fight To Get It Back.”

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