AOL is RW Trash!

[nyc 4 Biden]

I'm so sick of this website pushing the RW agenda. I only use my AOL email when I think I am going to get spammed but there is always some RW meme plastered all over their site. If you read on, this article isn't nearly as bad as the junk they usually have up but the title clearly reveals AOL's agenda. I think they are misinforming a large swath of Americans with their propaganda, but most especially older people. IMO many AOL users are older folks because AOL was their first email account and they never bothered to change it.

I guess I'm just stating the obvious but sometimes I see people sourcing AOL and Politico w/o qualifying that these are RW outlets.

P.S. - The comment section is even worse than the articles, but I guess that is always the case when there is no IQ minimum to play keyboard commentator.

:rant:

eta: with > w/o

[progressoid]

1. Yep - the only people I know that still use AOL are rabid RWers.

[superduperfarleft]

16. That's because the only people who still use AOL are blithering idiots.

Seems to be sort of an overlap there.

[sakabatou]

2. What do you expect. AOL has been sucking for a long while.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. LOL...AOL had McCain winning Illinois...I think they had him winning all the states.

That's their online poll, BTW.

Who the hell uses AOL anymore?

[Echo In Light]

4. AOL was one of the first to be named back when info slowly came out on Big Bro spying on users

[47of74]

5. Haven't used AOL in many, many years now

And I never looked back either.

[niyad]

6. there is a reason we call them ao-hell. many years ago, my computer had that crap on it--as did

a friend' computer (wayyyyy back) friend called me up, outraged, to tell me that he had just gotten a call from ao-hell, daring to question him about some things on his hard drive. he politely asked them to explain how they knew what was on his hard drive, which they didn't answer. we noticed that ao-hell was frequently downloading stuff--stuff you couldn't find later. it took three attempts before we were able to get ao-hell off our computers.

oh, and a little known fact--ao-hell has its own filtering system (their own version of net nanny)-if you use it, the entire web is NOT available to you. at one point, years ago, it was impossible, for example, to find information on breast cancer, or to access sites that had, for example, a webmistress rather than a webmaster.

may they rot.

[Toasterlad]

7. Good God, Does Anyone Still Use AOL?

It's literally been years since I've seen an aol.com email address.

[KillCapitalism]

14. I dunno lol.

I dropped them in 1999 to upgrade to high speed & never looked back. My dial-up connection on AOL would get dropped a lot, their service sucked.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Check out the other headlines too

Reminds me of Faux Snooze. Geez.

[Rebubula]

9. WOW

I did not know they still operated....


Just kidding, but who still uses that?

[blm]

10. AOL has long served the fascist agenda - Bush cronies at Kingdom Holdings also used it to

gain large portion of shares of TimeWarner/CNN.

[Guilded Lilly]

11. AOL has long been recognized as heavily RW

and, yes, a viable reason that so many liberals or Democrats still keep the aol.com addresses is to direct SPAM to them when signing up for certain website's offerings, knowing full well that a lot of junk will be attached to the email offering.

They are very good as a SPAM deposit. Their politics don't interest me in the least.

I've kept my original AOL email from (gasp) the mid 1990's and use it all the time when signing up for something I know will include masses of SPAM. My other email accounts are for serious information and personal communications.

[paulsby]

12. back in the usenet days we use to call AOL - Assholes On Line

very fitting imnsho

[MercutioATC]

13. Water is Wet!

Sorry, I thought this was a thread for incredibly obvious statements.

[SlipperySlope]

15. It is a "risky health bill"

It is politically risky, which is how I read that headline. But I see that more people read the headline as "risky to health".

Didn't read the original article so I don't know what was meant.

[Jennicut]

17. I have not used AOL since 1997 but my conservative mother still uses it.

I think that says it all.

[Sebastian Doyle]

18. I figured that out back in the 80's

When they were still a C-64 based dial up BBS called "Quantum Link"