Corporations should be substantially changed or eliminated.
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Originally Posted by Reuters on Nov 18, 2005
Online daters sue matchmaking Web sites for fraud
NEW YORK, Nov 18 (Reuters) - It's not easy finding love in cyberspace, and now some frustrated online daters say they were victims of fraud by two top Internet matchmaking services and have taken their complaints to court.
Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp. (IACI.O: Quote, Profile, Research), is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees. In some instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on sham dates with subscribers as a marketing ploy.
"This is a grossly fraudulent practice that Match.com is engaged in," said H. Scott Leviant, a lawyer at Los Angeles law firm Arias, Ozzello & Gignac LLP, which brought the suit. . . .
In a separate suit, Yahoo Inc.'s . . . personals service is accused of posting profiles of fictitious potential dating partners on its Web site to make it look as though many more singles subscribe to the service than actually do.
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Match and Yahoo aren't the only online dating sites to employ fraud to boost subscriptions. Have you seen the banners of scantily clad "women in your area" that link to AdultFriendFinder.com (a.k.a. Passion.com) or its sister site Alt.com? (If not, host any picture on Fapomatic.com and then view that picture at its designated URL.) After creating a free membership on AFF and searching for the members in the banners, it's clear that none of those women exist--or their IDs exist but with a totally different woman on the account. (My personal tests included 15-20 searches over 2 separate days.)
This is how the market works in the real world. More often than not, IMO, corporate marketing is based on fraud and deception, and we consumers cannot make informed, rational decisions.
For-profit corporations like Match and Yahoo are legally bound to consider one thing only: the interests of their shareholders: money. If
"the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil" (1 Timothy 6:10), then these corporations are legally bound to pursue
a root of all kinds of evil. If anything other than corporate malfeasance resulted, I would be amazed.
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Originally Posted by Chomsky in [i
The Common Good[/i] (199  ]... corporations are fundamentally illegitimate, ... they don't have to exist at all in their modern form. Just as other oppressive institutions - slavery, say, or royalty - have been changed or eliminated, so corporate power can be changed of eliminated. What are the limits? There aren't any. Everything is ultimately under public control. |
Corporations should be substantially changed or eliminated.
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