One of Prodigy’s users published defamatory comments on the forum, targeting the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont, Inc., and its president Daniel Porush. This case would seem similar to Cubby v. CompuServe, but Prodigy was more involved in the actual content that was published on its service. The forum had rules about what could be posted and imposed moderation systems, including automatic filtering and human moderators. The court determined that in this context, Prodigy was a publisher, not a distributor, and so was legally responsible for the material on its site. “Prodigy is clearly making
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