The civic communications director at MoveOn.org Civic Action wanted to be sure I knew that MoveOn, as a detractor of AOL's new optional paid certification through Goodmail Systems, thinks AOL and Goodmail have been lying for the past month since...
This is a debate that probably won't die down soon given the involvement of MoveOn.org and, now, a California legislator. Tech investor Esther Dyson weighs in on the AOL/Goodmail debate with an editorial in the New York Times (registration req.today.
Close on the heels of MoveOn.org's petition earlier this week, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), together with media policy group Free Press, will announce on Tuesday a coalition of advocacy groups is uniting to oppose what's been dubbed...
MoveOn.org is accusing AOL of threatening "the very existence of online civic participation and the free Internet as we know it. It's because of the ISP's recent Enhanced Whitelist agreement with Goodmail to institute what MoveOn calls an "email tax.
Here's an August post from Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News North that shows material from MoveOn.org which was then available in Google (and reported on by News.com) was also accessible via Yahoo.
On a related note, a News.com article from about six weeks ago discusses data from Moveon.org "leaking" by accident into Google. AOL is beginning a push to build more instant messaging robots, as covered in this ComputerWeekly.com article: AOL to...
