OUTSMART INTERNET HATE
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Join our grassroots effort to take back the internet from the haters and fakers.
The haters are using simple technology techniques to hold Google hostage and overwhelm social media with fake news and bigotry. We can use the same techniques to make sure that facts come first in our search results and social media feeds.
The haters have spent a lot of money to find and target people who help spread their nonsense. We just need a little money to get off the ground. Once we get started, the good and generous people of the internet will give us the tailwind we need to outsmart the haters and take back the internet.
Not sure what I mean?
Here is what happens when you type "are women" or "are jews" into Google.
Source: The Guardian 12/4/2016
Why can't Google, Facebook and the rest of them just fix this?
The answer is simple. They just can't catch all the haters and fakers. Google and Facebook need us. We provide the content. All they do is match the content other people make with our searches and likes. Honestly, it's not Google's or Facebook's fault if millions of people search for and link to hate speech.
What can we all do about this?
Basically we will create simple web pages like MuslimsAreScientists.com that fight stereotypes by providing positive, verifiable facts about real people. We will promote these facts using the same linking, liking and tracking technology the haters are using. With just a little effort and a little money, these facts will show up in search results and in social media. Very quickly these facts will show up first.
What we are asking the good and generous people of the internet to do?
First please donate a little money to our efforts. Then just share, like and link to our fact pages. The technology of the internet will do the rest.
Our factual web pages
+
Links to those pages
+
Social media shares and likes
+
A little web advertisement
+
Standard user tracking
=
Facts squeeze out fakers and haters in search results and social media feeds
Here is Wikipedia's detailed description of how this kind of thing technically works.
Your contribution is a vote for optimism, a vote for the future and a vote to make sure the internet delivers on its promise to bring people together and stop driving us apart.
Your contribution will pay for the following:
1. Registering the names of internet pages that fight stereotypes and present facts like: MuslimsAreScientists.com and WomenAreMilitaryLeaders.com
Each domain name can cost anywhere from $1 to hundreds of dollars per year. We want to register at least 100.
2. Creating and hosting the simple websites.
The websites will be created by volunteers. Then each site will cost about $10/Month to host and $50/Month to keep updated.
3. Coding and managing visitor tracking also known as cookies. We can use that visitor data to further promote our pages. Simply visiting a page will help promote the facts. Of course we will be clear and transparent about how and what we are tracking as well as how to remove cookies from a computer or phone.
This will cost about $100-200 per site to set up. Volunteers will manage the tracking.
4. Buying a little bit of advertising with Google and Facebook. A little goes a long way.
We will start with $1,000 and spend more if needed.
5. Communication with Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social media to ask for their assistance. They want our help to solve this problem. Their businesses are being negatively affected by this problem.
This will cost about $5,000 for the year.
6. Link our websites to others all around the internet working to make the internet a place for good people to find facts. Volunteers will do this too.
Volunteers are welcome!
Who we are:
Hal Friedlander is a technology manager and volunteer tech expert for our efforts.
Chloe Brown is a production manager and our volunteer project manager
Ginny Fite is a writer and journalist and our volunteer researcher and editor.
The haters are using simple technology techniques to hold Google hostage and overwhelm social media with fake news and bigotry. We can use the same techniques to make sure that facts come first in our search results and social media feeds.
The haters have spent a lot of money to find and target people who help spread their nonsense. We just need a little money to get off the ground. Once we get started, the good and generous people of the internet will give us the tailwind we need to outsmart the haters and take back the internet.
Not sure what I mean?
Here is what happens when you type "are women" or "are jews" into Google.
Source: The Guardian 12/4/2016Why can't Google, Facebook and the rest of them just fix this?
The answer is simple. They just can't catch all the haters and fakers. Google and Facebook need us. We provide the content. All they do is match the content other people make with our searches and likes. Honestly, it's not Google's or Facebook's fault if millions of people search for and link to hate speech.
What can we all do about this?
Basically we will create simple web pages like MuslimsAreScientists.com that fight stereotypes by providing positive, verifiable facts about real people. We will promote these facts using the same linking, liking and tracking technology the haters are using. With just a little effort and a little money, these facts will show up in search results and in social media. Very quickly these facts will show up first.
What we are asking the good and generous people of the internet to do?
First please donate a little money to our efforts. Then just share, like and link to our fact pages. The technology of the internet will do the rest.
Our factual web pages
+
Links to those pages
+
Social media shares and likes
+
A little web advertisement
+
Standard user tracking
=
Facts squeeze out fakers and haters in search results and social media feeds
Here is Wikipedia's detailed description of how this kind of thing technically works.
Your contribution is a vote for optimism, a vote for the future and a vote to make sure the internet delivers on its promise to bring people together and stop driving us apart.
Your contribution will pay for the following:
1. Registering the names of internet pages that fight stereotypes and present facts like: MuslimsAreScientists.com and WomenAreMilitaryLeaders.com
Each domain name can cost anywhere from $1 to hundreds of dollars per year. We want to register at least 100.
2. Creating and hosting the simple websites.
The websites will be created by volunteers. Then each site will cost about $10/Month to host and $50/Month to keep updated.
3. Coding and managing visitor tracking also known as cookies. We can use that visitor data to further promote our pages. Simply visiting a page will help promote the facts. Of course we will be clear and transparent about how and what we are tracking as well as how to remove cookies from a computer or phone.
This will cost about $100-200 per site to set up. Volunteers will manage the tracking.
4. Buying a little bit of advertising with Google and Facebook. A little goes a long way.
We will start with $1,000 and spend more if needed.
5. Communication with Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social media to ask for their assistance. They want our help to solve this problem. Their businesses are being negatively affected by this problem.
This will cost about $5,000 for the year.
6. Link our websites to others all around the internet working to make the internet a place for good people to find facts. Volunteers will do this too.
Volunteers are welcome!
Who we are:
Hal Friedlander is a technology manager and volunteer tech expert for our efforts.
Chloe Brown is a production manager and our volunteer project manager
Ginny Fite is a writer and journalist and our volunteer researcher and editor.
Organizer
Hal Friedlander
Organizer
Princeton, NJ
