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...Block a newsgroup chronicling imagined liaisons of the purple dinosaur: news://alt.sex.barney But not this comparably frivolous newsgroup: news://alt.barney.die.die.die --By Noah Robischon...
...funneled into the stock market and challenged Wall Street brokerages for control of information (and rumors) about companies and their prospects. Drawing more than 350,000 visits a month, it is the most prominent of a growing number of online sites, such as the Silicon Investor www.techstocks.com or the newsgroup misc.invest.stocks, where investors can ask questions and share knowledge. Says David Gardner: "The small investor wasn't getting a fair shake. Wall Street analysts often had conflicts of interest on the stocks they were touting. They were trying to generate commissions and make their clients' stocks...
...such as the Motley Fool are breaking Wall Street's monopoly on information, and rumors, about companies and their business prospects. Drawing more than 200,000 visits a month, it is the most prominent of a growing number of online sites, such as the Silicon Investor www.techstocks.com or the newsgroup misc.invest.stocks, where investors can ask questions and share knowledge...
These protests are nothing new. On the newsgroup harvard.general last year, after former Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 made his decision to randomize the housing lottery for first-years, there were more than 100 posted messages about randomization--most of them on the pro-choice (in housing) side. A poll by the Undergraduate Council showed more than 80 percent of students against randomization. And ever since, in every indictment of the College administration, the issue of randomization is invariably included...
Thus, it is perfectly morally acceptable for private individuals, by voting against the white-power newsgroup, to urge system administrators not to devote their limited, private resources to propagating these repugnant ideals...