A tech platform where you're in charge

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 BIG TECH IS MAKING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OFF THE CONTENT YOU CREATE AND SHARE.  

Let's see...you invite your friends; you create content; you share content; you participate...so why are a bunch of guys in Silicon Valley getting rich off your efforts? Yep, we don't think it's right, either. That's why every member of Ontheline shares in the annual profits of the company. You read that right. We give back to the people who use Ontheline. Why? Because it is fair and it's the morally correct thing to do. 

 We call it Ownership Society™ and it's our way of creating a profit sharing plan for every single one of you. As our CEO, Bill Townsend, says, "The Internet has the power to level the playing field: It did back in 1995 and it does today, but only if we share with the people who make us successful. This means we must give back and the best way to give back is cold, hard cash."  We believe you're going to like this new approach. 

ADVERTISERS NEED TO STEP UP THEIR GAME TO BE ON OUR PLATFORM

Unlike many websites and social media operators, we require advertisers to adhere to many of the same standards that television networks require:  Our ongoing goal is to create and present advertising that is truthful, substantiated, in good public taste, and not misleading. Our Advertiser Policies and Guidelines are designed to help educate advertisers about the rules and norms for creating and distributing advertising content.  For example, brands that wish to advertise dietary nutritional supplements must provide us with the research behind their product claims. If they can't, we don't allow them to run ads. We know of no other social media or e-commerce site that requires this to protect their members. 

WE WOULDN'T RUN AN AD FOR SOMETHING WE WOULDN'T FEEL WAS TRUTHFUL

We also require companies selling products to clearly state in their ads or landing pages where the product is manufactured. Why? 73% of the people we surveyed said they want this. These extra steps in authenticating the advertiser's message will help insure members are not cheated and are buying what they expect. In addition, we understand that most consumers have had a bad experience with a product or brand and we give each member the ability to block ads from up to 5 products or brands, with the ability to access additional blocking. Yes, you read that correctly, we make it possible for YOU to not see ads from companies you don't like.  By the way, this  can include not seeing political ads, too.

WE EXTEND THIS BEYOND ADVERTISERS

Every member has the ability to limit the kind of content they receive. Perhaps you're not a fan of a certain Member of Congress, celebrity, or an ex-spouse: you'll never have to see posts that mention their name. At the same time, if you love someone, will make sure you get to see every one of her posts. That's correct, unlike a certain popular social media site, if you connect with someone, we won't limit what you see. We believe that if you want to connect with someone, you probably want to see all their posts so YOU can decided what is important to you. 

You see, we believe that YOU should decide what you want to see and when you do decide, you should be able to see everything. That's what real life is about, yet Big Tech continues to write algorithms and employ thousands of so-called "fact checkers" to prevent you from seeing what you want. This kind of censorship ends with our platform and over 64% of you believe this censorship should be up to the individual. This is why we have created outstanding self-moderation tools so you can choose what you want to see...and what you don't want to see. It's a whole new way of access information online and we believe you're going to love it.  

Switzerland is often cited as a model of independence.  While none of our senior executive team is from Switzerland (we're all American citizens), we honor that country's tradition of neutrality and couple it with America's tradition of freedoms based in our Constitution. We believe in this approach so much, we created our corporate logo in Switzerland red and USA blue.

 We're incorporated in the State of Nevada to provide Internet services including publishing and broadcasting and search portals via digital, wireless and/or wired networks. While headquarters are in Las Vegas, we have offices and employees in seven other states and believe this will only grow as we open the platform to 24 nations. 190 countries are recognized by the United Nations, but only 24 offer their citizens a great deal of freedom of expression, so that's where we'll operate. We don't need to be like Big Tech and conquer the world; we just need to be a little bit better at what we do for the 3 billion people in these 24 countries. 

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING FOR YOU

 This platform combines the most used features of social media, search, and information exchange with a technology architecture that enables you to self-select and automatically-segment groups, companies, organizations, people, in ways that mimic the real-world. Relationships are recognized, built, and maintained online and offline, and the platform we're bringing to you does just this. We let you create a personal account and a business account and segment your contacts in a myriad of ways because in real life, we don't just have 100 people we know, we have family members, close friends, people we consider social friends, coworkers, people we interact within our communities like teachers and the check out person at our grocery store, and friends whom we meet online. They're all different and we recognize that. 

 We're confident we possess the skills, knowledge, and technologies to build and operate the next great social communications platform. Our experience includes:

  - Creating the search engine Lycos and its international properties; 

  - Home page pioneer GeoCities (now owned by Yahoo!); 

  - Home page services including Tripod and Angelfire;

  - Connection engine sixdegrees, which became the intellectual property behind LinkedIn; 

  - Discussion powerhouse Deja (now owned by eBay and Google); 

  - Team members with social media experience with Facebook, Snap, Amazon, Twitter, ByteDance (TikTok), Friendster, WWE, and Zappos;

  - Advertising technology innovator StorNetworks; 

  - Biometric security leader StoneLock;

  - Secure online access service TrueMe;

   - People involved in setting advertising and privacy standards; and, 

  - the author of the Internet's first Children's Advertising Guidelines.

WE'RE NOT YOUR TYPICAL BIG TECH FIRM

 We were not founded by a couple 20 year olds in their bedroom or garage (no offense to young entrepreneurs: we were there once, too). Our two founders are in their 50's. Our CEO spent the past 25 years building tech and consumer goods companies. For 20 years, our Chairman's has run a company developing advanced technologies for our nation's defense and energy sectors. Both became frustrated with the direction of Big Tech and the abuse of their power. While we have been quietly building great tools, like delivering true 4K video content to phones; boring but needed data compression systems; consumer privacy tools; and much more, it wasn't until one of the founders posted a photo of the President awarding a Purple Heart to a member of our military that was deemed "offensive" by Facebook, now called Meta, that we looked at each other and said, "It's time."

 Our team has extensive experience in federal privacy initiatives, the Internet Advertising Bureau, online advertising, technology development, and information distribution platforms worldwide, which gives us visibility into what Big Tech has done right and what they’ve gotten wrong. We planned for this type of opportunity back in 1998, when at our former companies CommonPlaces, LLC and sixdegrees.com, we developed an online learning and community platform combining the best of search, social, and education for colleges and universities in the United States and colleges, universities, and elementary and secondary schools abroad. We were 10 years ahead of the world so we shelved several ideas for later resurrection and continued development of others, until such time a new approach to digital lifestyle communities could be brought to the masses. The team believes this is that time.

 Our team prefers to not refer to our initiative as “social media” due to the negative connotations of the term and potential changes in 47 U.S.C. § 230, a Provision of the Communication Decency Act, expected due to recent negative actions of Big Tech. We consider our platform a communications platform first and foremost, that has a social component because real life includes a social component. But "social media" has always been a term we have abhorred. First, it's not media in the traditional sense of the world. Media has tended to represent the news, magazines, TV, radio and the like. Second, the idea that because you are part of one of these sites you are social is not accurate. Many people want a service that gives them news, updates from family, good deals from advertisers, privacy, and the ability to share what they do or are into. We don't consider that "social," we consider that LIFE.

WE'RE OUT TO PROVE SECTION 230 WORKS

 CDA 230 is a law that states “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider”. In other words, online intermediaries that host or republish speech are protected against a range of laws that might otherwise be used to hold them legally responsible for what others say and do. The protected intermediaries include not only regular Internet Service Providers (ISPs), but also a range of "interactive computer service providers," including basically any online service that publishes third-party content. Though there are important exceptions for certain criminal and intellectual property-based claims, CDA 230 creates a broad protection that has allowed innovation and free speech online to flourish.  

 We believe that if you are a provider and you moderate/censor, you should no longer be afforded protections under CDA 230. You can't say, "we censor people who think this, but we are protected by CDA 230." That's like saying, we had sex, you're pregnant, but you can't hold me responsible. It's ludicrous and Big Tech has gotten away with it for years.  Our platform, incorporating Ontheline™ and Friendswith™, adhere to the original intent of CDA 230 and will show the world how it can be used in a positive manner for information exchange, communications, and uplifting of communities. 

This platform has been designed from the ground up to be the first neutral internet service provider that puts the power of moderation and censorship in the hands of the consumer, where it belongs. 

THERE IS SO MUCH MORE COMING YOUR WAY

 If you've read this far, you may be excited to see what our platform is going to do for you. It's going to offer a lot more than what we've shared here, but we can't expose everything because we want it to be a surprise. Or as our CFO says, "when people see this they're going to go 'WOW'". Trust us when we say it's best summed up as Real life, Ontheline™ which is why the platform name is, you guessed it, Ontheline™.

 We envision a future where you'll do much of what you do in real life, Ontheline™:

• You'll do what you do currently, but with more privacy and safety
• You'll see an ad or product you're interested in, but won't want to defocus from what you're currently doing so you simply save it to your LykeBox™ to access later
• You'll be at your favorite store and decide to pay for something with your Ontheline™ app
• You'll see a new movie promoted and instanly be able to invite your friends Ontheline™to join you that night
• You'll hold your study groups Ontheline™
• You'll respond to posts Ontheline™ the way that replicates real life with text, audio, or video
• You'll leave a text, audio, or video message for people Ontheline™
• You'll be at the doctor or dentist and when they tell you your have an appointment six months from now, they'll ask if you want it posted Ontheline™ to your calendar
• You'll pay rent or mortgage Ontheline™
• You'll buy or lease a car Ontheline™
• You'll take part in to your kid's parent-teacher conference Ontheline™
• You'll hold your business meetings Ontheline™
• You'll plan vacations Ontheline™
• You'll get your daily news Ontheline™
• You'll take your profit sharing earnings and use them Ontheline™ or transfer to a bank or convert to digital currency, all Ontheline™
• Instead of complaining about something the government is doing, you can interact with your elected officials Ontheline™
• You can open a one-to-one conversation with a company about their product or service Ontheline™
• You'll vote from the privacy of your home or office Ontheline™

 You're going to be able to do a whole lot of things Ontheline™ that you never thought possible. (Yes, we're excited about this, too!)

 To be among the first to be invited to join Ontheline™ reserve your invitation below.