Re: Google and the South African Internet

Have you considered getting a PR company to do a press release with all the
facts and get that published all over on your behalf, newspaper and online
media.
Unfortunately that is how the media works. It might cost you a couple of
bucks to secure publication but that way Google and all else will have the
truth as counter published.
You are fighting a losing battle to even attempt fighting any sort of media
outlet no matter how valid you think they are.
We are in a new age where access to information and information is king.


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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Andre Coetzee
Sent: 11 December 2015 09:08
To: [email protected]
Subject: [IOZ] Google and the South African Internet

When I search my name on Google.com the 5th result is this:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/400259-Arrest-of-Internet-Persona
lity-Andre-Coetzee

I was arrested in 2012 at my address and held for three days by the SA
Police for refusing to pay a bribe to a police officer.

The 'official' reason for my arrest inside a building at my address is
"refusing to provide my address to a police officer"

Charges which were quite obviously withdrawn as we still have a
seemingly/sometimes functional legal system.

and, other charges were of course made, etc, etc.

Now go read the rubbish that 'mybroadband.co.za'/internet community
publishes and http://google.com promotes as 'fact' or even closely relevant.

Maybe I should have simply paid the bribe, the cop only wanted a few
thousand rands as he confused me with someone else to begin with.
Anyway, I digress.

It is the contributions that everyone, including civil society, makes to
South Africa that shapes what it is.

Google views "mybroadband.co.za" as a "news" website and as seemingly has
vast popular support by the community (including you) that represents the
South African Internet.

meanwhile, the truth is that 'mybroadband.co.za" is obviously not a "real"
news website.

But, you, the South African Internet users, and GOOGLE strongly supports
this "website" for some unknown reason?

The result of this 'trust" is that; 

Every time I meet someone new or try to do new business I find myself having
to explain the post and thread on mybroadband.co.za

I have nothing to do with mybroadband.co.za or that thread, except
responding to it and subsequently deleting any account that I had there

On the South African Internet we will either follow the Chinese model of
running a type of intranet or the Russian model, the European model (which
protects private people and privacy - and the sh1t published by this
'mybroadband' and marketed by Google.com about an "internet personality'
(wtf??) will never fly.

But maybe South Africans like the idea of an Intranet (like China) or
security cops like Russia? or what?

Andre

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