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The Moral Sickness of Pepsi
There is an outrageous story on Yahoo, Pepsi, and other big businesses, thanks to investigation by a TV station in Houston, KPRC (channel 2 in that area). I first heard about this on the Kim Komando Show. To its shame, Yahoo has some of the worse chat rooms around, including sex chat rooms to bring young kids in contact with older men. The very titles of these rooms indicate their purpose - it's no secret to Yahoo. In spite of many letters and complaints, Yahoo continues to operate these rooms aimed at meeting the "needs" of molesters and perverts. Why? Because they bring in lots of advertising dollars. Kim Komando explained that in going to one such room, you had to first click on an ad for Diet Pepsi. That's right - Pepsi was involved in supporting a child sex chat room. After complaints were raised, they pulled the ads. Other products advertised in such objectionable hell holes included State Farm Insurance and Brawny paper towels, according to Kim.
What to do? Don't use Yahoo. Eliminate any Yahoo chat room services from your computers. Sell your Yahoo stock. And send their CEO a letter objecting to profiteering from child molestation services. Disgusting. (This might also be a good time to drop unhealthy Pepsi products from your life.)
And hey, business owners, don't advertise on Yahoo, and don't touch any agency that would think of putting your ads on Yahoo.
Are there any decent Web Services out there? I am currently banning Google
because of their liberal bias. Now, I am going to ban Yahoo!. I guess
it's back to excite.com. Thanks for the info.
That's a tough question. You'll find objectionable things on just about all
of them. But I guess Excite might be OK. It's hard to avoid Google since
they are so powerful and fast - just don't give them any revenue by
clicking on Google Ads.
Okay, Jeff...so your point is that it's okay to *use* Google...just not to
let it have any revenue? Pardon me, but that sounds just a tad bit
hypocritical. And as for Yahoo, do you think maybe it's the morally
bankrupt community that was *using* Yahoo, and maybe not the company
itself? I kind of doubt whether Yahoo had a board meeting and declared that
child molestation was "okay". Face it...they're in it for the dollars, and
there's no money in supporting the perverts.