{"id":10645,"date":"2011-02-10T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2011\/02\/meet-biggest-threat-google-aol-and-microsoft-ronald-reagan\/"},"modified":"2011-02-10T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:06:44","slug":"meet-biggest-threat-google-aol-and-microsoft-ronald-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2011\/02\/meet-biggest-threat-google-aol-and-microsoft-ronald-reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Biggest Threat to Google, AOL, and Microsoft: Ronald Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In the world of email, a short list of companies dominate\u2013Google, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft\u2013but there\u2019s a new player in the game that\u2019s ready to tear down their firewalls: Ronald Reagan. Just as Reagan took on Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter, the conservative icon\u2019s family isn\u2019t about to bow down to any lily-livered liberals, be them presidential candidates or billion-dollar tech giants.<br>\nLast year, in his father\u2019s memory, Reagan\u2019s son Michael launched an email service to end the monopoly of left-wing Internet companies. His charge was simple: \u201cEvery time you use your e-mail from companies like Google, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Apple and others, you are helping liberals,\u201d Reagan wrote at the time. \u201cThese companies are, and will continue, to be huge supporters financially and with technology of those that are hurting our country.\u201d For only a small $39.95 annual fee, conservatives around the country could purchase an @Reagan.com email address, and rest easy knowing their money was going only toward conservative causes.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of email, a short list of companies dominate&#8211;Google, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft&#8211;but there&#8217;s a new player in the game that&#8217;s ready to tear down their firewalls: Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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