Ok, not really, but geez it's hard not to see something like reputation.com and think how such a thing would be in major play in an AnCap society... And there are interesting ramifactions here, as this is essentially a business that helps people manipulate their reputation. In an AnCap society in which reputation will play such a major role, is there any doubt that there will be fierce measure/counter-measure battles between services that keep track of reputations and those that attempt to manipulate them?
I know someone who would think so...
Credit rating is already there. If companies, and I mean all of them (banks, credit cards, insurers, arbitrators, even chambers of commerce) could get to a single rating scale, it would indeed be a huge leaf forward. I suspect this is coming sooner rather than later.
So do you think that online reputation management firms like reputation.com and us profiledefenders.com do more harm than good to society?
What about situations where a good citizen was falsely accused of doing something wrong and was acquited but yet the search results still remained and that was prohibiting them from bettering their life?