1995-10-23 Sender: LECLERC YVES <•••@••.•••> > On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Cyber Rights wrote: > > > I would be interested to get information on studies, Government > > proposals, surveys, discussions in the field of media ownership, > > in the perspective of media concentration and its consequences > > for freedom of expression. … Read more…
1995-10-23 Pointers from moderator: Two discussions of politics, democracy, and electronic media (including a member of the German Green Party) will take place in Boston on October 30 and 31. A conference on “Building the Information Superhighway” in low-income communities will be held in Chicago on November 16 and 17. A conference on “Ethics of … Read more…
1995-10-21 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> > I know there are wide differences of opinion on this list about > ratings. As has been often pointed out, the librarians have already enunciated a very sensible policy on the matter, they are opposed, and they explain why. Their note has been posted twice here already, but if … Read more…
1995-10-21 Sender: •••@••.••• (Kurt Guntheroth) In the United States, on issue of a warrant stating the place to be searched and the evidence to be seized, and after showing “probable cause” that criminal activity is occurring, the police can search any premises, batter down any door, force any lock. They can read your mail and … Read more…
1995-10-21 Sender: Jason Wehling <•••@••.•••> On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Cyber Rights wrote: > I would be interested to get information on studies, Government > proposals, surveys, discussions in the field of media ownership, > in the perspective of media concentration and its consequences > for freedom of expression. We are just now publishing a … Read more…
1995-10-19 Once again, as moderator, I’ve decided to try looking over our recent conversations and pulling out some issues that we should all think about. The list has been pretty quiet for the last few days, so let me try to get everybody involved again with some challenging questions. Encryption Many people want more discussion … Read more…
1995-10-19 Sender: octobersdad <•••@••.•••> From: Jens Cavallin <•••@••.•••> Organization: Council for Pluralism in the Media X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: •••@••.••• Subject: (no subject) X-URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/cgi-bin/intro.pl Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: •••@••.••• Precedence: bulk Status: R I would be interested to get information on studies, Government proposals, surveys, discussions in … Read more…
1995-10-19 Sender: Bill W Smith Jr <•••@••.•••> > > Update from moderator: > > It’s important to hear good news every once in a while. Many will > remember how a Bulletin Board Operator in Arizona, Lorne Shantz, was > arrested this past May because somebody had uploaded pornography to > his bulletin board without … Read more…
1995-10-18 Sender: octobersdad <•••@••.•••> Forwarded because of the importance of this issue to all democratic societies: (Forwards removed) •••@••.••• (Jens Cavallin) sent the following from organisation: Swedish Council for Pluralism in the Media and Tel: 46-8-405 3004 Introduction to the ISPO discussion list: ———————————————————— The Swedish Council for Pluralism in the Media is a Government … Read more…
1995-10-16 Bryan A. Alexander I suffered a mail-crash (don’t ask – grisly) and lost the orginal post from you folks about this list. Can you send me the help file? Thanks! Bryan Alexander Department of English University of Michigan **********************