[barnacled]

>huge companies do not make changes like this purely on the basis of newspaper columns.

The same newspaper ran similar tactics against YouTube which resulted in colossal changes. These kinds of stories have an enormous impact, magnified I think by company's (in the case of YouTube, advertisers, in the case of OF, payment providers and investors) being terrified of snowballing bad PR in social media.

It's strange but in the modern world yes, 'old media' can have transformative impact on corporations.

[hulitu]

it has nothing to do with media. They just use the media to justify their strategy.