Devils will sell you heaven in a bucket.

Many corporations farm out their support and sales to third-party
companies with call centers. The corporations provide the scripts for
the sales personnel which work for the third-party company and are
'authorized' to represent the contracting company. This is called
'branded support' or 'branded provision.' The third party that runs the
call centers is the 'branded service provider.'

Many ISPs and tech companies also do this. You may think you are calling
CrummySoft technical support, or McAfee anti-virus support, but the call
goes to a third-party provider at a call center in Colorado, or Texas,
or California, or Jamaica, or India, that reads from a script that pops
up on the call tech's screen. The script tells the tech which company
name to use in the call greeting. The same call tech might handle sales
and support calls for 50 different companies in the same day.

So this call tech might answer your call and say, "Thank you for calling
McAfee Anti-Virus Support. This is crummy slick salesman John. How may I
help you?"

After that call, a call comes in for a different company, and John might
answer, "Thank you for calling Adam and Eve adult video. This is crummy
slick salesman John. How might I please you?"

On and on it goes, as John answers each call according to the script
that is assigned to the incoming telephone number that is switched to
the call center.

Much of the religious and political chatter on the Internet--probably
most of it--is the same phenomenon as the branded service providers
working in call centers. Only these social media branded providers use
Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, Whatsapp, Youtube, TikTok, and other social
media instead of answering incoming phone calls.

Even the world's military organizations employ such services from third
party contractors for propaganda campaigns. This is called offcially,
"Internet Influence Activities" or IIA for short. IIA contractors have
vast tech and call centers with dozens or even hundreds of hirelings who
post propaganda all over the Internet with sock-puppet accounts.

Many leading personalities who are promoting agendas, movements,
religions, and ideas are actually paid 'branded providers' who are play
acting a part. The company (intelligence agencies, corporations, church
conglomerates) that provides these representatives to peddle ideas is
paid hefty sums.

Your favorite Youtube political or religious "teacher" is possibly one
of these branded providers. There might even be one or more of these
branded providers posting here on Usenet pumping a certain political
ideology or religious doctrine that serves a political, economic, or
social agenda.

Some of these branded providers are hired for damage control. They will
sometimes converge on and attack someone who is exposing facts that are
unflattering to the agencies or companies that hire them. They will
disrupt, troll, threaten, and distract and re-direct the discussion to
prevent or drown out disclosure of unsavory information. Then they will
pump out their spin to influence public perception.

Corporations and governments do this. So do international religious
organizations. This is how some religious organizations and church
consortiums work to gain traction. Some religious organizations secretly
contract their services out to the aforementioned corporations and
governments.

Let us begin with a small example. You will often see large billboards
that say, "Attend the church of your choice." These billboards are paid
for by groups of churches in the same area. They are cooperating to get
people into their religious money machine. They don't just do
billboards. Those religious institutions with a lot of lot of money hire
IIA (public relations) companies to run public relations campaigns and
damage control. In some cases the religious organization may actually be
serving as the influence operation. The social media company you trust
with your data may be moonlighting as the provider of an influence
operation. It's a slimy spaghetti web of corruption.

Yes, Matilda, the world is this cynical and fake. There are millions of
useful idiots in the world who are morally bankrupt enough to do these
kinds of jobs. Many people have drank the kool-aid and are like robots
eager to serve Sauron in his campaign to rule Middle Earth.

For these reasons and more not mentioned here, paid institutional,
lobbyist, political, and corporate advertising should be banned. Paid
advertising is not protected speech. Some supreme court Justice might
disagree, but they are wrong, and their opinions change based on what
they perceive as the doctrines of necessity and necessary and proper
order. Granting constitutional rights to corporations and lobbying
groups destroys the constitutional rights of flesh and blood humans. The
two cannot coexist. One will destroy the other in the end.

Taking money to promote conflicting ideas is pretty scummy. Paid
advertising is mercenary speech for the rich and powerful that
obliterates the speech of the poor and weak. In such a climate it is
impossible to know who is actually doing any of the speech, and truth is
impossible to ascertain. This will eventually cause the destruction of
our civilization. The fact that our legislators are merely paid
propagandists for lobbyists is the bell weather or canary in the coal
mine. There is no representative government while paid advertising,
campaign contributions, or lobbying in any form remain legal. Such
practices should be banned in all the land.

When some people just don't make sense, or never seem to go off script
with their drivel, now you know what may be happening behind the scenes.
If they promise paradise for a price, they may be the devil's hirelings
selling you heaven in a branded piss bucket.

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