BOYCOTT AOL!
AOL is a notorious
Globalist organisation which is waging a war against White Nationalism
on the Internet. They are for instance blocking distribution of
NATIONALIST WEEK to AOL subscribers. If you are a White
Nationalist CHANGE your
Internet provider as soon as possible. Don't give these
Internationalist rip off merchants another penny!
FACTS
ABOUT AOL YOU SHOULD KNOW!
Notable persons associated with AOL
The current
version of AOL's software as of August 2006, AOL 9.0, has been
identified by Stopbadware as being "under
investigation" for installing additional software without
disclosure, failing to uninstall completely, and modifying browser
preferences, toolbars, and icons.
AOL
Keywords - a sinister tool
Keywords
are words or phrases that act as shortcuts to AOL areas and Web sites.
For example, to view football news and results, you go to AOL Keyword:
Football.
Many
companies used to pay AOL to have their content featured as an AOL
Keyword. One used to see AOL Keywords listed on products or in
advertisements in much the same way that Web URLs are used today.
Some AOL
keywords at AOL USA, AOL Germany, AOL Canada or AOL UK only work in
these countries and cannot be used by AOL customers in other countries
(and vice versa). Every other country (where AOL is available) has its
own AOL keyword(s).
Community
Leaders(?) - Internet censorship by AOL
admitted
Prior
to mid 2005, AOL used volunteers called Community Leaders, or CLs, to monitor
chatrooms, message boards, and libraries. Some community leaders
were recruited for content design and maintenance using a proprietary
language and interface called RAINMAN,
although most content maintenance was performed by partner and internal
employees.
In
1999, Kelly Hallissey and Brian Williams, former Community Leaders and
founders of an anti-AOL website, filed a class action lawsuit against
AOL citing violations of U.S. labor laws in its usage of CLs. The
Department of Labor investigated but came to no conclusions, closing
their investigation in 2001. In light of these events, AOL began
drastically reducing the responsibilities and privileges of its
volunteers in 2000. The program was eventually ended on June 8, 2005.
Current Community Leaders at the time were offered 12 months of credit
on their accounts
Unwanted CD-ROM
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AOL was able to
rapidly bolster its growth by mailing out
sign-up diskettes
and CD-ROMs containing free
trials to hundreds of millions of households.
This long and
relentless campaign has produced a backlash,
however. One program, called No More AOL CDs, seeks to gather one
million unwanted AOL CDs and dump them at AOL headquarters. Other
organizations have objected upon both environmental and privacy
grounds; for example, many
environmentalists say that AOL's CDs are largely unwanted and result in
massive non-biodegradable plastic waste.
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Software
In
2000, AOL was served with an $8 billion lawsuit alleging
that its (now dated) AOL 5.0 software caused significant difficulties
for users attempting to use third-party Internet service providers. The
lawsuit sought damages of up to $1000 for each user that had downloaded
the software cited at the time of the lawsuit. AOL later agreed to a
settlement of $15 million, without admission of wrongdoing. Now, the
AOL software has a feature called AOL Dialer, or AOL Connect on Mac OS
X. This feature allows users to connect to the ISP without running the
full interface. This allows users to use only the applications they
wish to use, especially if they do not favor the AOL Browser.
AOL supports
net censorship in mainland China
AOL, along with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco, Skype,
and others, has
cooperated with the Chinese government in implementing
a system of Internet censorship
in mainland China.
Many critics of these corporate policies argue that it is
wrong for companies to profit from censorship and restrictions on
freedom
of the press and freedom of speech. The alternative,
however, is censorship of the entire website.
Human rights advocates such as Human Rights Watch and media
groups such as Reporters Without Borders
point out that if companies would stop contributing to the authorities'
censorship efforts the government could be forced to change.
USER
INFO RELEASED!
On August 4, 2006, AOL
released a compressed text file on one of its websites containing
twenty million search keywords for over 650,000 users over a 3-month
period, intended for research purposes. AOL pulled the file from public
access by the 7th, but not before it had been mirrored, P2P-shared and
seeded via BitTorrent.
While none of the records on the file are personally
identifiable per se, certain keywords contain personally
identifiable information by means of the user typing in their own name
(ego-searching),
as well as their address, social security number or by other means.
Each user is identified on this list by a unique sequential key, which
enables the compilation of a user's search history. In fact, in a
test of whether it was possible to do so, the New York Times was able
to locate several individuals from the released, and anonymized search
records by cross referencing them with phonebooks or other public
records. Consequently, the
ethical implications of using this data for research are under
debate.
...and
all this is just for starters! BPP member Gerry R. of our Policy
Department is compiling a full dossier on AOL's Globalist connections
which we will release as soon as ready.
