Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive? · Slashdot Mirror

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:Puritans! by ackthpt · 2002-12-20 10:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

Damn! They're taking away the last good thing about AOL. ;-)
At least we still have Slashdot!
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