Ted Leonsis proudly tells us that AOL is now giving away–for free–it’s superb Parental Controls! If you have children who you let use the Internet, you should take a look at this. Perhaps you were an AOL subscriber and gave up AOL’s Parental Controls when you cancelled your service when you signed up for cable modem or DSL service: now you can have it again, for free, protecting your kids while using your high-speed service.
If you have any questions or difficulties, just let me know in the comments below and I’ll do my best to help.
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Can you offer any insight as to *why*? These controls seemed like a good “competitive advantage” AOL still had over competitors.
Joe: I’m purely speculating here (and NOT speaking about any official AOL position!) … but perhaps because AOL wants to actually build product that people want to use and giving it away for free will allow more people to use stuff they really want.
I’m sure it’s hard to believe that AOL actually wants to be a popular, non-evil and attractive brand, but we really do. It’ll just keep taking more and more actions like this one until people realize AOL is truly serious and committed to the people who matter: the audience.