Word: bulletin
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...therefore shouldn't write things that will get them into trouble. However, if I were to write a physical letter to my friend in which I describe women in terms of a lot of nasty four-letter words, and he were to hang the letter on a local bulletin board, I certainly wouldn't and shouldn't suffer any legal repercussions. By analogy, if this indecency bill were to be applied to the U.S. Postal Service, I would face five years in prison and $100,000 in fines. Email is still essentially mail, regardless of how easy...
...service as well as universities and businesses would be require to monitor the information passing over their lines and stored on their computers, and would be responsible if anything "indecent" found its way into the hands of a minor. (To continue the previous analogy, the man whose store the bulletin board hangs in would also face legal trouble.) The responsibility of content-monitoring is an unreasonable burden to place upon network providers whose systems handle a vast flow of information...
...Commons also offers lockers for student organizations and bulletin boards for use by the college community, the Freshman Dean's Office, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences registrar, individuals offering items for sale and rides, campus event publicity, the Memorial/Lowell Hall Complex and the Office for the Arts...
...because it merged with a corporation that had already gone public. Yet on SoftRAM 95's box, the company lists its ticker name as nasdaq:sycr, even though its shares are still not approved for trading on the national over-the-counter exchange. (Syncronys' stock trades on the OTC bulletin board, which is supervised by NASDAQ...
This year's case, Richard Smith v. United States, concerns an incident in which a man used his computer bulletin board system to disseminate obscene materials, raising questions regarding free speech on the Internet. The case was based on the real-life case United States v. Thomas, which was tried in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee and is currently pending in the Sixth Circuit...