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- Nov. 04, 1991: Business Notes:Information Services
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 04, 1991 The New Age of Alternative Medicine
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 65
- Business Notes
- INFORMATION SERVICES
- Bigots and the Bulletin Board
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- <p> Adolf Hitler and Franklin Roosevelt used radio to spread very
- different messages, proving that powerful new media have the
- potential for evil or for good. That is a lesson Prodigy
- Services is learning all over again. The home-computer network,
- which IBM and Sears jointly operate, offers electronic bulletin
- boards on which subscribers can exchange typewritten comments.
- Last week the Anti-Defamation League, a national monitor of
- hate groups, disclosed that Prodigy boards are being used to
- promote anti-Semitic propaganda. Messages have appeared
- contending, among other things, that the murder of millions
- during the Holocaust is "fantasy and exaggeration." Prodigy
- argues that such comments, however distasteful, fall within the
- realm of free expression. Even so, the company last week
- announced a restriction against "blatant expressions of bigotry"
- and will be meeting with the A.D.L. to discuss its complaints.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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