Why aol sux

Why aol sux

Why aol sux

America Online is the largest Internet provider in the world, but it didn't become one without a fight. Originally a closed-in, proprietary online service, it was pried open by the public's fascination with the global network. For all of the company's past glory, it is now little more than a big communications company.
America Online wants to be more than a communications company, though -- it wants to be an entertainment network, like "the MTV of the Internet." And that is where its problems set in. AOL, in a desperate bid to get subscribers in order to make itself more attractive to advertisers, went to a flat-rate plan this year, making AOL competitive on price but disastrously poor in service. Today, the company offers feature-poor, heavily commercialized, and frustratingly unreliable services to its customers.

AOL's Poor Service
AOL's signup kits tell you that they are the fastest, easiest, most reliable Internet service out there. Is that true? Not by a million years. AOL offers its users horrendous service. The company is so ov erloaded with customers -- and is so far behind at installing equipment -- that busy signals have become more common than an actual connection when dialing into AOL. In addition, if you do connect, you are condemned to use badly written AOL software to read and send email and to browse the Web. For a service that is still more expensive t han its competition, is the sacrifice worth it?
Censorship on AOL

The Internet is a place of free speech, where one can discuss any topic without fear of censorship or retalliation. This is not the case on AOL....

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