Reviews:
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Karl, of course, misses the mark in several ways (1) This ad is not about wiretapping, much less making fun of the privacy conscious. It's about addressing consumers' concerns about online billing and payments. This particular character is addressing the consumer who is suspicious that things entered on the Internet will be stolen or used in ways she doesn't want. It's trying to reassure her that AT&T will keep her data safe and private.
(2) The issue of AT&T and its relationship with the US government with respect to national security really does not have traction out there in the real world. It's way down in the weeds on the list of things the voting public worries about. To think that this ad is about that issue, or that anyone outside this particular segment of the blogosphere here would make that link, is what the psychologists call "projection". In the real world, consumers are worried about identity theft, losing their money, or getting put on marketing lists for spam, phone calls, and letters. That is what AT&T is addressing with these ads.
(3) Karl keeps pounding on his point that "AT&T funnels all of YOUR phone and Internet data DIRECTLY to the NSA with NO WARRANT OR OVERSIGHT", like a big, stupid lumberjack banging away at a tree. Overlooked is the fact that NO ONE REALLY KNOWS exactly what's going on, but reason would suggest that it is nothing close to what Karl "alleges". This is simple demagoguery. |
