Updated List of Reasons to Boycott Time Warner

Should You Boycott Time Warner? 49 Reasons


If you have options besides Time Warner, please use them.

Time Warner
1. on CNN promotes war
2.
Anti war and environmental activists have had more computer
outages than others.
3. is responsible for the scheduled end of free television after
60 years in the US.. scheduled for 2009.
(Bill Clinton signed the mid 90's Telecommunication Act
which concentrated the holdings of Time Warner, Rupert
Murdoch and others)
4. Time Warner has used monopoly tactics everywhere..
It has been particularly aggressive in fighting low cost
or free internet access in Philadelphia.
5. Time Warner pricegouges with absurdly high rates
for internet access, cable, and phone
6. Time Warner requires payment in advance each month,
has a variety of add on charges from $5 for electronic bill
payment, to late charges.
7. Time Warner does not notify people that their deposits
are available for return when they close their accounts
8. Time Warner illegally pressures people to give social
security numbers (as does ATT), not informing them that a request for this number is illegal and that they
have a privacy right to refuse.
9. Those who exercise their right not to have their SSN recorded are charged a security deposit.
Even then, Time Warner violates them by putting their SSN on their files from illegal acquisition of SSN numbers.
10. Time Warner and ATT illegally hold social security data
on hundreds of millions of Americans.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring.html
11. Time Warner's service is below standard, with queues of
30 to 50 people waiting in line in some cities.
12. Time Warner promotes materialism .
13. Time Warner profiteers from election ads, while
European democracies give all candidates publicly funded
access.
14. Time Warner excludes third party and peace candidates
in the 2 biggest parties from media coverage and debate.
15. Time Warner's magazines such as Time, Sports Illustrated,
Warner Books are involved
in deforestation, destruction of animal habitat, are factors
in increased global heating.
16. Time Warner Cable promotes barbaric rodeos and hunting
shows.
17. Through its preponderance of fast food advetising, Time
Warner has been a big factor in making America the world's
fattest nation.
18. Time Warner excludes Muslims from anchor and reporter
positions, has a much lower percentage of Muslim employees
than their percent of the population. Its anchor Wolf Blitzer
is not announced as a former reporter for the Jerusalem Post.
TW has virtually no Muslim anchors.
19. War promotion cartels control radio with warwhore
shockjocks like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. But on
tv, the 2 way street is totally blocked. The citizens of the
US are muzzled. TV is a one way programming machine.
20. Subliminal advertising has been a frequent tool of
electronic media.
21. The people of the US are the owners of our air waves.
Yet these airwaves have been rented at firesale prices to
war profiteers who make hundreds of billions of dollars off of
them while charging the citizens for access to their own air
waves.
22. Time Warner has bought politicians from national to local
in a variety of ways.. including paying for bar tabs at local
watering holes.
23. Time Warner's promotion of pornography has lowered community standards, has aroused the ire of the Muslim
world. Sports Illustrated portrays women as objectified pieces
of meat.
24. Sports Illustrated covers extensively the Masters tournament in
August Georgia which excludes women.
25. Time Warner is used to covering up the news. When it does
air whistleblowers, it is usually about past and not present
wars. When the military objected to its story about the use
of sarin gas by the military to murder defectors in Vietnam,
CNN not only retracted the story. It fired the whistleblowers.
26. Beer ads increase car fatalities, domestic battering,
cirrhosis of the liver, etc.
27. Saturation food ads are noted by international observers,
who say American tv has more commercials encouraging
eating than do other countries. This is a factor in American
obesity.
28. CNN has an arrangement with some fast food and
restaurant chains that it be the channel for tv's in the facilities.
This is a further involvement in slaughterhouse products.
29. CNN has been promoting the use of human beings
as guinea pigs in pharmaceutical trials.
30. While Americans are being driven into poverty by the
millions, Time Warner has national help desk offices in Canada
and the Philippines.
31. Time Warner illegally collects information, violates privacy,
data mines through the use of cookies which track every website
32. Time Warner will not change the subnet mask number
for those customers being hacked unless they agree to
pay more per month.
33. Time Warner has muzzled the truth about
911 and tens of thousands of other stories.
34. Roadrunner, Time Warner's cable monopoly, does not
take responsibility for the easy hacking of its customers
it allows nor does it have adequate protection against such
hacking.
35. Time Warner advertises pieces of murdered animals,
adding to animal agony, disease, American obesity, energy
waste etc.
Those working to defeat McCain have been harrassed by frequent
computer outages.
36.
When people who work from their homes are subjected to outages,
they lose sometimes hundreds or thousands of dollars a day.. yet
Time Warner reimburses them only 1.50 a day.
37. Besides the excessive food ads correlated to obesity,
the alcohol ads which help cause driver fatalities, domestic
battering, liver disease etc., the profiteering from election
ads, are the excessive unregulated number of ads
Time Warner and other networks inflict on the public.
38. attempts at unionbusting
http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/11/24/cn...ing-to-a-union
CNN ordered to rehire 110 workers fired because they belonged to a union
39. Time Warner makes it easy for credit card holders and difficult for checking
account clients to pay.
40. Time Warner has promoted the bombing of
Gaza and Lebanese children by the IDF.
41. Viacom and Time Warner are fighting over
fees.
http://www.democraticunderground.com...esg_id=3665923
Time Warner has a special Charlotte NC facility which spies on its customers.
42. Time Warner charges a whopping 7 cents a minute
outside someone's county (or 4.20 an hour to speak to someone
perhaps 3 miles away)... in one of its phone plans
43. TW installers are independent contractors not paid overtime.
44. Time Warner requires a 2 year contract for its phone...
but gives only a 1 year contract on not increasing prices.
45. Because of Time Warner pricegouging, some libraries
have had to cut back on the amount of internet time they
offer the public.
46. Time Warner gives no number verification for check transactions over the phone.

* Elsewhere
* animal flesh advertising
* ending free tv
* illegal monopoly
* Non-feature
* pricegouging
* Time Warner
* warmongering
47. Time Warner pressures libraries into forcefeeding clientele with prowar news
48. Time Warner treats its subcontractors badly
49. ESPN disses vegetarian athletes

More issues

In a conspicuous omission, Time Magazine, the deforesting warmongering magazine of Time Warner, a magazine
which has never met a US president's war it didn't like, omitted mentioning the real target of
the recent Arizona shooting of a congresswoman. It was federal judge John Roll.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/us/10judge.html
The Huffington Post as well downplayed the murder of John Roll while focusing
on the injured but alive Ms Giffords.

criticism of Time Warner at FCC hearing
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/28/business/aol-and-time-warner-face-criticism-at-fcc-hearing.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2009/04/12/time_warner_s_bandwidth_cap_plans_are_drawing_criticism

TW's treatment of subcontractors
http://www.boycottowl.com/Time+Warner+Cable/181


Time Warner's pricefixing
http://stopthecap.com/2009/04/05/ny-times-exposes-time-warners-rationing-plan-as-profit-grab-scam/