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| Request for Potential Plaintiffs on AOL case |
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| jannah |
| 07/18/02 at 16:29:10 |
| To: cair-net@cair.biglist.com From: CAIR [deleted text] REQUEST FOR POTENTIAL PLAINTIFFS ON AOL CASE Assalaamu Alaikum: My name is Maaria Mozaffar and I am working with Muslim civil rights attorney Kamran Memon in Chicago. A very significant case that we are working on right now is AOL vs Muslim plaintiffs. We have filed a lawsuit against AOL for its constant denial of countering complaints of harassment and insulting conversations suffered by its Muslim customers. Despite a number of complaints, AOL has not taken steps to cease the harassing and insulting behavior that takes place in its "Koran" and "Belief in Islam" chat rooms against Muslims. We are looking for potential Muslim plaintiffs who may have a claim against AOL to join the lawsuit. Please do not underestimate the impact of your initiative for standing up for Muslim civil rights if you indeed have been a victim of harassment while online with AOL. We need you to come forward. Please send your name and contact information, your complaints and any evidence that you have saved of the harassment itself to aolclassaction@yahoo.com. We will examine your claim and get back to you as soon as possible. AOL should be made aware of the large number of Muslim customers it has. We sincerely look forward to hearing from you. Salaam, Maaria Mozaffar Law clerk Kamran Memon Civil Rights Attorney CONTACT: aolclassaction@yahoo.com For further information on AOL lawsuit, visit: http://www.cair-net.org/downloads/aol.pdf |
| Re: Request for Potential Plaintiffs on AOL case |
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| jaihoon |
| 07/18/02 at 16:37:10 |
| [slm] Although not directly related, this news item maybe helpful. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AOL used unconventional business practices: Post REUTERS [ THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2002 12:16:39 PM ] WASHINGTON: America Online boosted its revenue figures through unconventional deals from 2000 to 2002, before and after its merger with Time Warner, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. A chart printed in connection with the Post article shows a total of $270.1 million in unconventional deals. The newspaper said it reviewed hundreds of pages of confidential AOL documents and interviewed current and former company officials and their business partners in order to produce the report. According to the Post article: * "AOL converted legal disputes into ad deals; * "It negotiated a shift in revenue from one division to another, bolstering its online business. * "It sold ads on behalf of online auction giant eBay, booking the sale of eBay's ads as AOL's own revenue. * "AOL bartered ads for computer equipment in a deal with Sun Microsystems. * "AOL counted stock rights as ad and commerce revenue in a deal with a Las Vegas firm called PurchasePro.com. "AOL also found ways to turn the dot-com collapse to its advantage, renegotiating long-term ad contracts it risked losing into short-term gains that boosted its quarterly revenue," the Post reported. The accounting and business practices resulted from worries over impending loss of advertising revenue and market unease over the health of Internet companies, the Post said. "In such an atmosphere, and with its takeover of Time Warner imminent, AOL sought to maintain its breakneck growth in advertising and commerce revenue," the newspaper reported. Robert O'Connor, then vice president of finance for AOL's advertising division, told the Post he outlined concerns in a series of meetings with top executives in 2001 and this year. "Clearly, a lot of what they were living on was revenue that was not of the highest quality. I don't know if they're still in denial, but there were some pretty big business issues they were not willing to face. "For nine months, I tried to get these guys out of denial. I tried to take the perfume off the pig," O'Connor told the newspaper. He resigned in March. In response to the Post investigation, AOL replied that "the deals were handled properly and the company 'maintained a strict and effective system of internal controls.'" AOL also told the Post "the total revenue represented by all the deals reviewed by The Post were 'truly microscopic' -- less than 2 per cent of AOL's overall revenue, including subscriber fees -- and therefore immaterial to the company's business." |
| Re: Request for Potential Plaintiffs on AOL case |
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| bhaloo |
| 07/19/02 at 00:33:25 |
| [quote author=jannah link=board=media;num=1027024150;start=0#0 date=07/18/02 at 16:29:10] Despite a number of complaints, AOL has not taken steps to cease the harassing and insulting behavior that takes place in its "Koran" and "Belief in Islam" chat rooms against Muslims. [/quote] Thats interesting, I wasn't aware that people were entitled to rights in chat rooms. Or perhaps these rooms were moderated, and the moderators did nothing? ??? |
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