1995-09-15 Sender: •••@••.••• Subject: Re: Brooklyn Conference “FREE SPEECH OR FILTH: SHOULD CONGRESS REGULATE COMMUNICATIONS ON THE INTERNET?” The Brooklyn Law School Cyberlaw Society is sponsoring a symposium on the free speech battle on the Internet. The symposium will be held on Thursday, September 21, in the Subotnick Conference Center (10th Floor) at 7 p.m., … Read more…
1995-09-15 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> Without knowing all the details, I think we can cautiously applaud this bust by the Feds. One of the main arguments by would-be Congressional censors, reintroduced yesterday in a bill by Senate Judciary Comm. Chairman Orrin Hatch has been that child porn is freely available all over the Net. … Read more…
1995-09-15 Sender: “Steve Eppley” <•••@••.•••> David Cloutman <•••@••.•••> wrote: ><much unneeded political posturing deleted> >I caught a bit of a TV show last night that apparently might answer your >question. Appearently forensics experts can retrieve deleted files from a >hard disk. Short of reformatting the drive, there is no way to actually >erase a file … Read more…
1995-09-15 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> Good news on the cyber liberties front from Colorado. A federal judge cited “the [electronic] free exchange of ideas” as serving the “public interest,” as he ordered the return of computers and files to FACTnet Tuesday. Below is the New York Times story on the ruling. Craig ================================================== SCIENTOLOGISTS … Read more…
1995-09-15 Sender: •••@••.••• (Jerome Thorel) Yes, I saw a WSJ article about this High-Tech alliance : >HIGH-TECH ALLIANCE AGAINST PORN >A group of high-tech companies, including IBM, Microsoft, AT&T, MCI, America >Online, Netscape Communications, Time Warner and Viacom, is forming an >alliance to fight cyberporn. The group will be coordinated by the >Massachusetts Institute of … Read more…
1995-09-15 Sender: Vigdor Schreibman – FINS <•••@••.•••> On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Cyber Rights wrote: > Sender: MARK STAHLMAN <•••@••.•••> > Subject: Re: PFF Agenda > > Folks: > > Give up on the Magna Carta. It’s dead, dead, dead. There was no attempt to > discuss it at this year’s event and there is … Read more…
1995-09-15 Thanks to Craig Johnson, our ftp site now has a newsletter from Electronic Frontiers Australia, an organization with goals similar to the U.S.’s Electronic Frontier Foundation. The newsletter is in the Announcements directory under the name Electronic-Frontiers-Australia, and I can send it to you if you don’t have access to the Web or ftp. … Read more…
1995-09-14 Sender: Robert Jacobson <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: There is No Revolution Without Revolutionaries (Wrapped) Well, I can agree with Mark Stahlman’s discussion of technocracy and the eternal search by those in power or seeking it to discover tools –and the justifications necessary to use them–capable of seizing and holding power. The current noise level is … Read more…
1995-09-14 On the subject of seizing computer equipment, Daniel Shap <•••@••.•••> recommends two papers stored on the EFF Web site. If you can’t download these, email me and I’ll send them to you. They are: Mitch Kapor, Civil Liberties Implications of Computer Searches and Seizures: Some Proposed Guidelines for Magistrates Who Issue Search Warrants (1991) … Read more…
1995-09-14 Sender: •••@••.••• (Kurt Guntheroth) Subject: capitalism and the internet “Free market” capitalism has the same advantage as the internet; distributed control. Nobody makes central decisions about load or content on the internet. Nobody makes central decisions about price in the market. This single essential property enables freedom like no other. To one extent or … Read more…