Banned by AOL

American Spectator ^ | 12/22/2003 | Kathy Shaidle

[walford]

My wife quit AOL years ago [before Win98 came out, that's how long it's been] because pop-up windows BEFORE the browser even came up that would bomb out her computer.

Now it turns out that AOL is nannying people's e-mail and search results? And you have to pay HOW much/month?

[Orangedog]

I can't believe that anyone still pays them for their version of the Internet on training wheels.

[MonroeDNA]

What is AOL? Is thea the company that sends me free CD's for target practice?

They make GREAT targets at 100 yards.

[Leroy S. Mort]

I can't believe people still use A-Hole-Hell. Apart from this babe's complaint, it's just slightly above WebTV as a refuge for denizens of the shallow end of the gene pool.

[clintonh8r]

AOL...worthless, useless and hopeless.

[DLfromthedesert]

I just clicked on the article and mailed it to 3 AOL accounts, one of which is mine. I'll see what happens.

[rovenstinez]

AOL for losers

[k2blader]

Nice poem!

And you mean folks still use AOL?

[hardhead]

Yes they do and they dood it frequently. I have a daily newsletter called 'Liberty Watch' which I send out to subscribers all over the U.S. It is SIMPLY a collection of links to hard news stories on bonafide, legitimate news sites. I engage in no commentary whatsoever; just send the links to people too busy to surf themselves. I suspect that some of the linked stories were dissing homos and thats why the mail was rejected. Back to your statement about the canned reason they gave you 'it has generated a large number of complaints'...... I only had one AOL subscriber and I know he did not complain (he is a personal friend) - the bottom line - AOL is censoring anything that is pro-family, pro-God and against buttsex.

[William Terrell]

Bumper sticker idea.

"AOL is for People Who don't Know any Better."

[saluki_in_ohio]

I can't believe people still use A-Hole-Hell. Apart from this babe's complaint, it's just slightly above WebTV as a refuge for denizens of the shallow end of the gene pool

Say what you want about the users, but at least WebTV's (or MSN TV, whatever) do not get viruses!

[walford]

I just clicked on the article and mailed it to 3 AOL accounts, one of which is mine. I'll see what happens.

Please post the results -- that should prove to be interesting...

[DLfromthedesert]

Well, I just went to my account, and there it was; I just went the link. I don't know if the respondant tried to copy and paste the article.

[DLfromthedesert]

WebTV was my introduction to the net; at the time, laptops were still very expensive, and I didn't want any more clutter in my house.

[fourdeuce82d]

not military related, but click on the links to see the background behind this "holiday"

[Dr. Eckleburg]

A sign of things to come.

[L.N. Smithee]

The poem itself is brilliant.

Let me interject at this point that I am black...and DON'T participate in Kwanzaa.

[Xenalyte]

Good. Let AOL block what it will. Maybe the people for whom I still hold out hope - those just beginning their slide into morondom - will ditch it pronto.

[lelio]

Very odd. I tried to forward this link to an AOL subscriber, but I got a 'Delivery Status Notification' message from postmaster@mail.hotmail.com saying that the link was reported as offensive and automatically blocked. Does AOL really censor email?

I take it the person sending the email is using hotmail. You can get this message if either hotmail or AOL is blocking the email.

You'll have to dig further down into the email and see if it was AOLs or hotmail's server that blocked it.