Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday December 20, 2002 @09:11AM from the somewhere-between-the-cdrom-and-the-floppy dept.

TheViewFromTheGround writes "Why have the years since the merger with Time Warner been so hard on America Online? Michael Wolff, a consultant who advised Time Warner not to buy AOL in the early 90's, says that the the big problem is Time Warner's denial of AOL's core value: a monopoly on dirty chat. The argument says that AOL was successful because they had a critical mass of people and that it skillfully marketed talking dirty by appearing to be family friendly. Now, the old media bedfellow is pushing AOL to stop its pimping ways."

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Re:Here's My Rant about "Safe Communities" by zenyu · 2002-12-20 23:34 · Score: 1, Flamebait

US attempts to avoid civilian casualties (hell, we could carpet bomb / nuke Afghanistan and Iraq and no one'd be able to do a thing about it)

Yes, the US is the only country in the world never to use the weapon of mass distruction on civilians.

Or, is that the other way around?

PS Am I the only to have great sense of irony and sadness when those "your drug habit supports terrorism ads" run? My tax paying habit supports terrorism, have you watched "Brazil" since 9/11?