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- From: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Prodigy pulls the plug
- Message-ID: <1k9749INNq6h@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:02:49 GMT
- References: <1993Jan28.171645.12424@ads.com>
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- Henry Mensch writes
- >lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com wrote:
- >->Sexual abuse survivors on Prodigy fled to GEnie en masse about 14 months ago
- >->after Prodigy management said their discussion was "too explicit."
- >they considered TRAVEL DISCUSSIONS (you know, which airline has the
- >best service/cutest FAs/least favorable safety record) risky ...
-
- I think that's because airlines advertise on Prodigy.
-
- GEnie isn't completely free from censorship, but I know there are private adult
- areas and they are pretty free-wheeling. The only real "censorship" rules I've
- seen on GEnie are:
-
- put asterisks in certain "four-letter" words (like f*ck)
- avoid personal attacks (they usually wind up in an
- area called "dueling modems")
- you can't use bulletin board areas to start boycotts or
- letter-writing campaigns. This "rule" is generally
- not enforced, except when the target of said campaign
- is NBC (the parent company of which is the same parent
- company of GEnie---General Electric)
-
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