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A Ruling That Could End the Internet as We Know It

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Is Prodigy Liable for What Users Had Put on the Message Board?

A New York State court in 1995 says Prodigy is more like a newspaper and therefore is liable for what users had put on the message board. Adam Sobel: It's very hard to imagine how you can survive unless you devote enormous resources to taking down every potentially problematic thing. "It really could destroy this seedling that was the Internet in 1995 and 1996," he says.

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