I don't believe in the death penalty... for people
But I do believe in the death penalty for corporations.
Sometimes they do something so heinous, so unacceptable, that the only just punishment is oblivion.
An example: We should have put Exxon to death after their tanker wrecked the ecosystem of a pristine bay in Alaska.
And today, If there were a death penalty for corporations, AT&T may have just earned it.
Imagine, they have designs of selling access to movies and stuff over the Internet, so they decide to join with the MPAA and the RIAA to spy on and prosecute their customers.
What a lack of awareness of their relationship with customers. They should do things to reward customers for being smart enough to have chosen AT&T as their Internet service provider. Instead, they would make their customers the stupidest people on the planet, choosing the only ISP that will send you to jail to create a new business model for them. Instead of competing to provide great service at the lowest possible price, they want to drive their customers to financial ruin, for having made the mistake of choosing AT&T.
AT&T -- a company that doesn't deserve to live.
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Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:00:52 PM
~About the Author~
Dave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.
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