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| | Wired News: Velvet Rope Bolts over AOL 'Censorship' |
 | | The Velvet Rope, a music-industry gossip board where industry insiders, music journalists, and occasional rock stars have gathered for years, will be leaving AOL on 1 August, says moderator Julie Gordon. |
 | | The Velvet Rope, part of the Mad About Music area of AOL, has existed in secret folders on AOL since 1993, and was officially signed on to AOL in fall 1995. |
 | | Figuring that the Velvet Rope was a members-only area to which no children belong, Gordon stopped deleting all posts with swear words, and said AOL "looked the other way" until her contract came up last month. |
| www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,5420,00.html (972 words) |
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