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...dean suggested several alternatives to hanging banners. He said student groups could use sandwich boards, electronic bulletin boards or, for especially important events, 4 large board between the Sciences Center and Thayer gales...
...provider be held responsible? That, in essence, is the issue being decided in state supreme court in New York thanks to a libel suit filed against Prodigy, one of the Big Three online services. A Long Island financial firm claims it was unfairly accused of fraud on a Prodigy bulletin board. Prodigy, like other online service providers, regards itself simply as a conduit through which people communicate - like a telephone company - and thus claims it isn't responsible for postings. The suit, complains a company attorney, is "trying to establish responsibilities that aren't present in traditional media." Nevertheless...
...last issue came to a head most dramatically last July, after a U.S. postal inspector, posing as a customer in Tennessee, downloaded X-rated pictures from an adult computer bulletin board in California. Though the images might have been acceptable by California standards, they were judged obscene in the Bible Belt, and the owners of the bulletin board were convicted of transporting obscene material across state lines. Their appeal may be headed for the Supreme Court...
...someone online can the online service be held responsible? That's the issue being decided in New York's State Supreme Court. A Long Island financial firm, Stratton Oakmont, sued Prodigy -- one of theonline world's Big Three-- claiming that it was unfairly accused of fraud on a Prodigy bulletin board. Prodigy, like other online service providers have always said they're simply a communications conduit -- much like a phone company -- and have claimed that they're not responsible for what their customers post. "Liability," says Kent Stuckey, general counsel of Compuserve, "could present a chilling effect on the free...
...dispatches have warned that some "browsers," including free and commercial copycats of the popular Mosaic program, quietly supply the Internet E-mail addresses of Net site visitors. These lists, critics argue, could soon be sold to the highest bidder --or even to government snoopers. "You'll go into a bulletin board that has an ad, and in a little bit of time, the manufacturer can start sending you junk mail," David Farber, a University of Pennsylvania computer science professor, told TIME Daily. The next step, Farber and others theorize, is a credit-card-like record of what you've bought...