Stardate 20010804.1002 (On Screen): The blue-noses are pointing their fingers at Yahoo again because Yahoo is still running porn ads and
selling sex-oriented objects on its sites in Europe. One of the critics is a spokesman for the "Traditional Values Coalition." Gad, I hate names like that. (Could be worse, I suppose, it could have been "Family" something or other.) I'd like to know if Mr. Aiken can suggest a busines proposition for "clean". We already know that porn sells and that porn advertisers are still willing to pay for banner ads. How does Mr. Aiken suggest that Yahoo become profitable without their business?
Corporations are not "clean" or "dirty". Corporations are profitable or unprofitable, and that's the only characteristic about them which matters. That happens to be the law, interestingly, and if a corporation operates clean and unprofitable where dirty (legal, but dirty) would make it profitable, its stockholders can sue.
"What I don't understand is why a mainstream company like Yahoo would stay in the business of pornography." That from Patrick Trueman of the American Family Association (oh, well). Surely he knows the answer. (discuss)
