Jason Levine
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They thought that 25 million homes would use the system, only 29,000 did. (And I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that some of those 29,000 weren't multiple computers in the same house.) That means that only 0.116% of the target audience wound up actually interested enough to use the filter. So if only a tenth of one percent of your target audience actually is interested in porn filtering the logical step is to force filtering on 100% of users, right? 
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| said by Jason Levine  :They thought that 25 million homes would use the system, only 29,000 did. (And I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that some of those 29,000 weren't multiple computers in the same house.) That means that only 0.116% of the target audience wound up actually interested enough to use the filter. So if only a tenth of one percent of your target audience actually is interested in porn filtering the logical step is to force filtering on 100% of users, right? We've got the tyranny of the minority in the U.S. as well. Stupidity knows no limits.
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redleaf
join:2000-09-12 | reply to Jason Levine
Considering that Australia's population doesn't even reach 25 million people I don't know how they thought they'd reach 25 million homes. Maybe they thought people would install it in their vacation homes too? |
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patcat88
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Jason Levine
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Good point. Australia has an estimated population of 21.2 million people. Even giving them the benefit of the doubt that they meant that 25 million *PEOPLE* would be using this and not 25 million *HOMES* (two very different things), that's still about 118% expected usage. I've heard of some pretty optimistic usage expectations, but this takes the cake! |
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