Welcome to COPO

The internet is a virtual graveyard of dead websites. Of the billion or so websites floating around, it's nice to know that The Court of Public Opinion is not dead - far from it. We're just over two months old, and even though we're only learning to crawl, we're the number one result for searches on Google and Bing for 'The Court of Public Opinion'. We're even in Wikipedia's definition. So anything you say here can and will be held against negligent entities in the court of the world. So tell society what YOU know is important. Simply click 'Connect' to register and prove you're not an evil spambot, upload your photo, then go to the Forum section and vent. You can even make your own voting polls, add videos, images, start your own lobby group, or even join the Department of Investigation. That's right - we make personal business cards with your name and email address so that you can hold authority in your wallet every time you go shopping. Companies will have to choose between improving their standards to an acceptable level or being blacklisted by a COPO Investigative Reporter - you. It will alter your stride. (You might even start wearing mirror sunglasses and talking into your wrist - we don't mind.)

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Aside from the instant feelings of justice and relief you will feel from reporting a wrong-doer, your complaint on COPO could help others avoid the individual or organisation who has done you wrong. Even if someone does not visit this website, they are likely to look up individuals or organisations on 'Google', where your post will be found. Imagine you are about to do business with someone, so you look them up on Google and find they have been blacklisted. You would be likely to read that Google result, right? Of course you would. For the benefit of your fellow man and woman, please go ahead and post what you REALLY think. If you see a post that you disagree with, by all means, contradict the writer. The truth is what we all want. Please help us find it. Registration takes seconds if you click the blue 'Facebook Connect' button at the top of the screen.

Quite a few people have joined us on Facebook already, but what we really want, and we think we speak for you as well, is a better world. So tell us what is unfair, and hopefully other members can find a way to solve the problem. Tell us what you like or dislike, and allow others to discuss the pros and cons with you. This website is new, but I hope you can fill it with rich ethical discussions, from the latest media-broadcast issues to your rules of communication at home, to your perfect dreams of Utopia. So click on the 'Forum' button at the top of the screen and start a new topic. We hope you can help us find the answers we're all looking for.

We have just added a new forum for you to discuss issues relating to People You Know.

Here is an example of an everyday dispute scenario that we're sure you're familiar with:

You are misinterpreted for the hundredth time by someone you feel should know you better. Not only has this person offended you by not knowing how you think, but en has also responded aggressively without merit. If this person had respected you enough, en would have paid attention to the intentions behind your comments and responded legitimately. But now that en has aggressively attacked your emotions, your natural response is to retaliate.

During your retaliation, you explain how this person has misunderstood and unfairly attacked you, at which point the other person should realise that en was wrong and apologise, thus allowing you both to breathe while attempting to re-establish trust so that the conversation can continue with a promise from the other person that en will pay attention properly this time. But this resolution doesn't come, does it?

When you retaliate from es unwarranted attack, en attacks you even harder than before, without anything close to an apology. This kind of behaviour is disgusting, of course, and will lead to a huge, irreparable mistrust between you. One needs to concentrate to appreciate. If someone is not paying you enough attention to understand your thoughts, in that moment en does not care about you. If this happens regularly, this person simply does not care about you in general. You either need to change, or find someone who cares. This person is emotionally harming you, and there are simply too many people to choose from in this world who could listen to you, so you should not think that the music has stopped and that this is the final chair.

Another consideration is that you have mistreated the other person in the past and never made amends. Forgiving and/or forgetting emotional attacks is usually essential when resolving issues with people of limited mental capacity or patience, because they will not discuss all aspects of perspective thoroughly enough for anyone to achieve closure, a process that can take hours and involves drawing and labelling mind maps. The truth of the matter is that you are probably both too lazy to do such a thing (unless you are both intelligent, compassionate and motivated individuals - extremely unlikely), and that such conflicts will continue for the duration of your relationship or life, whichever ends sooner, or until one of you learns to shut up and hold all the pain inside until you become bitter and miserable, hugely diminishing the production of serotonin in your brain.

We recommend that you talk about your conflicts in the People You Know forum. It will clarify your thoughts, alleviate some weight from your shoulders, and help others learn from the ensuing discussion thus making them feel less alone or trapped. The jury of the world is now seated. Present your case.

Any new threads on The Court of Public Opinion will now be published on Twitter immediately. So make your Thread titles interesting. The world is watching!

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To assist you with expressing yourself in The Court of Public Opinion, the staff have invented some neoglisms that we think will be helpful. Just like 'Schwarzenegger', these words will take time to adjust to:

1. en - a pronoun that replaces him, her, it, he, she, they (singular) and them (singular) when referring to a conscious being. This is necessary when the gender is unknown or irrelevant. Using the word 'it' has an air of offensiveness, and the words 'their' and 'them' have been misused for centuries. You'll wonder how you ever got by without this amazing word. It's absolutely vital. Wildly ambiguous phrases such as 'Who are they?' when referring to a single person can now be abandoned. Unlike he-him and she-her, we felt that a second word variant was unnecessary. It seems ridiculous that the English language does not already have an equivalent pronoun in common use after hundreds of years. We hope that the people of AD2211 don't have such a problem. We hope you'll spread the word.

That baby was so cute! Was en a boy or a girl?
- I have a great doctor. = Who is en?

2. es - posessive form of the pronoun 'en'. (his, her (possessive), hers, theirs (singular), their (possessive singular), it's)

The dog lost es bone.

3. shlock - the derogatory term for a person who shows a lack of concern for a problem. This might be the most offensive insult in the English language. People who do not care are not curious. Even stupid people can be curious, but shlocks, who are stupid as an end result, deliberately shut their minds off and thus hinder the reparation, maintenance and development of the path to a better tomorrow. One needs to concentrate to appreciate. Sticking one's head in the sand when there is work to be done to improve the world can be said to be worse than tyranny, for even tyrants have a vision for the future. Shlocks simply accept the status quo and massively hinder benevolent progress. Encouraging children to become mature is often a request for them to become shlocks. Conform, grow up, be normal, fit in. This is shlockdom - the death of imagination. A shlock is the opposite of a 'thinker'.

I told him about your house burning down and he didn't even react. What a shlock!

4. conk - the derogatory term for someone who is Confident 'Out No Knowledge. To be confident beyond one's merit. A synonym of pretentious.

She just looked down her nose at me and gave me nothing more than sayings she'd heard other people say, and she was so confident about it. The information is useless and wrong. What a conk!

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Department of Investigation membership is coming. You will be allocated an email address at publicoffence.co, COPO business cards with your details, and extended priveleges on this website.

COPO is only two days old and we're already developing an app for Android and iPhone. Check your phone to see if you can download it - should be ready before June. We hope that if your friends have a problem they can't resolve, you'll tell them to download the COPO app or to visit this website: PublicOpinion.co.

Please don't leave today without clicking the Facebook 'Like' button in the sidebar. This will keep you in the loop, and it will really help us a lot by encouraging more members.

We have also created a few forwarding URLs that should help attract people depending on their mood:

Complain.co will take you directly to the Blacklist Forum where you can hold organizations accountable for terrible customer service.

We are considering manufacturing 'COPO Investigator' ID cards for members who are willing to actively collect media evidence and write reports against staff and organisations who are a detriment to society. We are also considering the creation of personalised COPO business cards and 'Shocking Customer Service' stickers to sell on this website. Let us know what you think about such ideas.

Perfectionism.co will take you directly to the Perfectionism Forum so you can discuss world-changing ideas. Truthseeker.co and Truthteller.co will get you to the Perfectionism Forum as well.

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