eBay's Ill-Timed Lifetime Achievement Webby

Posted by kdawson on Thursday May 3, 2007 @03:54AM from the do-as-I-say dept.

theodp writes "eBay CEO Meg Whitman will accept a special Webby Lifetime Achievement Award next month on behalf of the eBay Community, which has 'permanently changed the way people connect, discover and interact with each other.' Perhaps by then, people will have forgotten how eBay enabled buyer 'Blazers5505' to hook up with sellers like 'oneclickshooting' just weeks before the worst mass shooting in modern US history, prompting eBay to issue a gun-parts-don't-kill-students-guns-and-ammo-do statement that showed little evidence of its celebrated commitment to social consciousness. CEO Whitman, who received $11.1M last year for her leadership efforts, has kept a low profile since tooting eBay's trust-and-safety horn for Wall Street analysts two days after the Va. Tech rampage."

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Re:I hate to say it.... by $RANDOMLUSER · 2007-05-03 04:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

...I read slashdot and I feel like everything is going wrong-
I think you'll find that a ridiculous percentage of us are chess players - people who can think a few moves ahead about the consequences of our actions, and possible repercusions.

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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Re:Nice flamebait by imroy · 2007-05-03 11:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Gun control isn't about disarming "bad guys" it is about disarming basically law-abiding dissenters

No, gun control is about disarming *everyone* - "good guys", "bad guys", all of them. This isn't the wild west any more. Grow up, America.