Re: Visit RonArtistR at AOL

On 10 Jul 1995, Anne wrote: > George Pratt (gbp4@indy.net) wrote:
> : Greeting All,
> : I just had a wonderful idea. Since RonArtistR has left our little
> : playground of a.r.s because we are all such nasty bullies, perhaps we
> : should pay him a visit on AOL. AOL give away free accounts with 10 hours
> : of connect time. I think I will dig up one of those disks and go
> : play in his playground for a while. I sure won't care if they TOS my
> : free account.
> : George
> It won't pay you to bother doing this, as AOL seems to be in the
> $cieno's back pocket, and will remove any dissenting message you
> may post to any of the myriad of $camatology folders.
> Anne ...
--On AOL if you have experienced a problem that is not your fault, you can ask for a refund of the time you spent on it--a credit back to your account. That it is a "free" 10 hours should not obviate this; they made an offer to give you that time and should be obligated to provide it. If you follow the guidelines--and in fact most yanked posts are well within the posted guidelines--then you should have the time you spent online composing and sending the post reimbursed. You have to request it, but I suggest that people do so. Once AOL --or any organization -- posts guidelines, they have an obligation to live by those guidelines. AOL did not have the stomach to post a guideline that says "If a representative of the Church of Scientology does not like it, it will be pulled." Therefore they have to live with the guidelines they *did* post--and those clearly allow for questioning and commentary-- in other words, *discussion*!