1995-09-28 Sender: •••@••.••• (Don Porter) Re all of the attention being paid recently to child pornography & pedophelia and the supposed relationship of the Internet in promoting it, I caught a promo announcement yesterday for an upcoming show on the Fox TV network that folks might want to watch out for and respond accordingly. According … Read more…
1995-09-28 Sender: “Steve Eppley” <•••@••.•••> I was told yesterday that InterNIC will now be charging $50 per year per domain name. I just attempted to learn more at their website, but it timed out. Oh, the joys of privatization and monopolization. —Steve (Steve Eppley •••@••.•••) ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by — Andrew Oram — •••@••.••• — Cambridge, … Read more…
1995-09-28 Sender: •••@••.••• (Jerome Thorel) Andy said : >I have to thank Jerome Thorel for this information, as well as for the >following posting that fills in some details. I realize that a lot is >left unclear, such as who has authority to approve and actually put >the Council of Europe’s proposal into law. More … Read more…
1995-09-28 Sender: •••@••.••• (Richard L. Emery) > >This one snippet certainly weighs lightly against the evidence that > >deregulation provides the best choice at the best price for the consumer. > > What does high-school economics have to do with the real world? > Deregulation has nothing to do with enabling competitive free-market > forces, … Read more…
1995-09-26 Henry Huang —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– On Sep 25, 3:37, OLmaniac wrote: > With this post, I will show my ignorance, but humor me, please. Say in the > future, most nations outlaw any encryption system which cannot be cracked by > government officials. How would they know you are encrypting your > communications … Read more…
1995-09-25 Sender: •••@••.••• (Don Porter) On Sep 22, 1995 01:12:08, ‘Cyber Rights <•••@••.•••>’ wrote: >The following posting is long, so I have cut the major background material (the >part titled “The Jesse Hirsh Case”). However, the whole document is on our ftp >site in the Net-Suppression directory under the name Anarchives-on-Arrest. I >encourage you to … Read more…
1995-09-25 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> Kurt Guntheroth wrote: > > There are people on this list who are so afraid that a monopoly > might dominate cyberspace that they are unwilling even to consider > market pricing of content or service. I don’t know what these > people propose instead, or even if they … Read more…
1995-09-25 Sender: •••@••.••• (Sandra Bernstein) Not just computer-generated. We had a case here in Toronto Canada where a visual artist, Eli Langer, created some paintings and drawings that portrayed nightmarish images of child abuse. They were displayed in a reputable alternative gallery. After a critique in the local paper, the police seized the paintings and … Read more…
1995-09-25 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> I’ve followed the discussion on electronic voting carefully,, and have more than a passing interest in the area. In the 1989 federal elections in India, electronic voting machines were to be used in 150 “sensitive” constituencies (where booth capturing was frequent — we have an interesting democracy). An opposition party … Read more…
1995-09-25 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> Glen Raphael wrote on 22 September: > Maybe ten years from now the net will become a necessity of life, > but it’s certainly not there yet. You mention the UN; do you REALLY > think that people in Bangladesh need subsidized net access? And is > this the … Read more…