Yahoo: The Internet Is Under New Management, 'Ours'

Yesterday the Yahoo! executive who reportedly oversaw Flickr, Scott Dietzen, resigned from Yahoo! according to TechCrunch. It was also reported yesterday that Yahoo has now retained Goodby, Silverstein and Partners to somehow try and recover from their failing marketing campaign.

While Yahoo censors paintings of classical nudes from public museums, their employees are off getting public lap dances at Yahoo “Hack Day.”

How can Yahoo seriously expect us to accept their $100 million marketing big lie that "the internet is under new management, yours," when they carelessly and maliciously destroy customer data without so much as a warning?

Yahoo’s new $100 million marketing campaign should not read "the internet is under new management yours." It should read "the internet is under new management ours."

Until Yahoo learns to respect their users and their user data and embraces true community management rather than community mis-management, their outlandish marketing message will continue to fall on deaf ears.

Here is an open letter I wrote to the head of Yahoo’s Marketing efforts, Elisa Steele, regarding these problems.

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Comments

[GorillaPete:]

you area douchebag

Oct 22 12:01 PM

[gorilla:]

agree with GorillaPete

Oct 27 06:53 AM

[BryanTRobot:]

GorillaPete, and gorilla are censor-ship loving morons. I have had this question repeatedly deleted from Yahoo! Answers: "Does Yahoo! Answers have a liberal bias?". Anything politically controversial, or at variance to Yahoo! Answers' political ideology is routinely deleted, and people like me get emails where the reason for deletion is left blank. I have a feeling Yahoo! is part of a coup, under the internet czar, to put the entire internet under new management: Big Brother. Not you and me. When I first heard their new slogan- "The internet is under new management, yours"- I about busted up laughing, but simultaneous found it quite a chilling choice of words. Yahoo does not believe in the philosophy of the first amendment. I say "philosophy", because the first amendment applies to the government, and Yahoo answers is a private company, which means they have every right to censor their websites (until they become a part of the government). But I implore them to see the wisdom in allowing people to freely discuss, and not patronizing the adults who use their sites, by thinking they can't take reality. Let the wise announce themselves wise, let the douchebags declare themselves douchebags, the fools fools, and give people the dignity of choosing to see the world with their eyes open. When wise people read or see the works and words of foolish people, there is no danger of them being persuaded- it only works to dispel any doubt that the fools are truly foolish. Censorship is for douchebags, like GorillaPete. Nice article.

Nov 04 06:33 PM