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by Marc on August 22, 2006
Companies have no moral obligation. But you can vote with your purchases. Let your consumer and business dollars reflect the behavior that you support.
GOOD: AOL Time Warner. AOL vaulted into the news with the release of 19 million web searches from 600,000 users that contained personal data. In response they fired the CTO and two employees.
BAD: Sony is a continuing disaster for consumers. We've covered their spyware CDs (1, 2) and artist and agent fraud.
Now it turns out that Sony is the supplier of Dell's defective batteries. They knew the contaminated batteries would overheat a year ago. But Sony decided to wait and do nothing until catastrophic battery failures forced the Dell recall. The owners of burning and exploding laptops everywhere are thankful.
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Response from:
Digital Music - The Future
While I bash Sony for their colossal ethical lapses (1, 2, 3), they also deserve credit for their strategic vision (social networking, Mylo portable player with WiFi and Skype) Sony continues the latter tradition with the $65 million purchase of...
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Digital Music - The Future
Last week I complimented AOL Time Warner. I take it back. Way back. It's one thing for AOL to screw up and take action like a grownup in the case I cited. But when the problems are ongoing and continually...
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