[privacy] AOL user behaviour

[Mark Carey-Smith <m.careysmith () student qut edu au>]

Hi all,

Reading a paper recently, some statistics are quoted from 2000 saying that 80% of AOL users 'never venture beyond thos 
places at which AOL's...portal points'. Interesting statistics if they are true in the respect of the ability of AOL to 
control what their quite large user base gets to see. Recent news reports have highlighted AOL's filtering of email to 
their uses to censor out messages relating to the Dear AOL campaign but in this instance I'm more interested in their 
ability to perform Internet censorship.

Does anyone know of any recent statistics of AOL's user behaviour?

Thanks,

Mark.

Mark Carey-Smith
PhD Candidate
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology

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