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“Care to find out which brand of condoms your friends prefer?”

July 9, 2013
“Care to find out which brand of condoms your friends prefer?”

July 8, 2013 – Channelone.com “breaking news” article. From Jim Metrock: For months Channel One News would post AP news stories without attribution. They made other people’s content appear to be their own. It was dumb for them to do that because they knew they would caught. Above is an AP story on Channelone.com today...
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Razor to the wrist

August 12, 2004
Razor to the wrist

  This is a picture of Channel One’s message board this afternoon (August 12). Somebody posted a message that uses symbols to draw what appears to be a razor cutting a wrist. This would be in keeping with Channel One’s previous cutting postings earlier in the year. Obligation believes that Channel One executives are NOT trying to get children interested...
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Vulgar Message Boards For Kids

February 3, 2004

From Jim Metrock: This is a sample of the sleazy message board Channel One News uses to lure kids to their web site. Channel One got in very bad trouble doing this to kids in 1998. They lost a large amount of Alabama schools that year because of the raunchy content they were delivering to children. Now it is...
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