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I heard on the radio that they've been involved with porn for more than 2
years now...what's happened recently may be a new development, but it's not
like their hands were "clean" to begin with.
And since I'm not one of those who'd quit Yahoo, I do have to put "clean" in
quotes.
Doug
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-techwr-l-67918 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
> [mailto:bounce-techwr-l-67918 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Ruth
> Lundquist
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:33 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Tech Writer Ethics: Yahoo Enters Porn Business
>
>
> Please forgive me if this has been mentioned before, but I'm
> on digest &
> haven't seen it.
>
> I've been reading with great interest the recent thread on ethics in
> technical writing. On a related note, I saw this article in
> today's online
> paper:
>http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?templat
e=biz_a_ca
che&slug=yaho11
Perhaps anon is employed by Yahoo? Hmmm...
So bringing it back to tech comm & ethics: will you as a technical writer
use Yahoo as a research source now that they are in fact in the pornography
business? It seems the ethics question is starting to hit a little closer
to home.
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