1995-10-08 Richard Moore Dear CR, I wrote the piece at the bottom in response to a question Rob Frieden posted to telecomreg. He evidently found it useful, given his response, immediately below. I hope it is of interest to this list. Cheers, Richard >==========================================. >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 15:54 EDT >From: “Rob Frieden” <•••@••.•••> … Read more…
1995-10-07 Richard Moore Dear CR, This likes one of the simplest and most sensible proposals for regulation of Internet content I’ve seen. #3, especially, makes sense, and would preserve open dialog on the net. I’m not convinced #2 is totally valid. #1 is long overdue — the net community seems to be largely ignored by … Read more…
1995-10-07 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 11:22:14 -0400 Reply-To: •••@••.••• Sender: •••@••.••• Precedence: bulk From: •••@••.••• (Anthony E. Wright) To: Multiple recipients of list <•••@••.•••> Subject: CME/CFA Poll on Media Concentrations Mime-Version: 1.0 As mentioned in this week’s Telecommunications Policy Roundtable (October 1995) meeting, here is the press release announcing the results of a CME/CFA … Read more…
1995-10-07 Introduction by moderator: The following interesting post about the protection of political activity was posted to the telecomreg mailing list, which has a lot of good information (although the number of messages is much higher than on cyber-rights). Courts have ruled that political activists can promote their ideas at shopping malls as if they … Read more…
1995-10-07 Pointer from moderator: An incisive analysis, found by Craig Johnson, of the new key-escrow policy being pushed by the federal government appears on our ftp site in the Re-Legislation directory under the name Clipper-II. Daniel Brandt argues, in an article for the leftist NY Transfer News Collective, that a war against hackers is going … Read more…
1995-10-07 Richard Moore Don Porter wrote: >I have a suspicion that some folks will read more into this paragraph than >is probably intended. They may well take references to unsatisfied urges to >include pedophilia and child pornography in the literal, and not just >literary sense. Some might accuse you of declaring open season on kids. … Read more…
1995-10-06 Sender: •••@••.••• (Don Porter) On Oct 03, 1995 02:45:09, ‘Cyber Rights <•••@••.•••>’ wrote: > I want to know what all of you on this list think of my idea. Is it >appropriate for the image of the cyber-rights group? Effective? Accurate? As a survivor of the ’60s, I’m always in favor of a little … Read more…
1995-10-06 Sender: Bill W Smith Jr <•••@••.•••> > > Sender: Nick Coffey <•••@••.•••> > > I would like to organize some advocacy for the position that > we should all boycott software manufacturers that prosecute > copyright violations and license breach of contracts. > > The basic position is that the software provider should provide … Read more…
1995-10-06 Introduction by moderator: I am including the long post below because every topic in it applies to a discussion we’ve had on this list. I’m not going to post the updates regularly, though–I encourage readers to subscribe for themselves, as described at the end of the post. You can extrapolate from the discussion on … Read more…
1995-10-04 Sender: •••@••.••• (Sandra Bernstein) Cyber Rights don’t include the right to steal. Are you saying it’s all right to steal a television set because you’re unlikely to take advantage of the manufacturer’s warranty? If you do intellectual work for a living, are you saying your employer no longer has to pay you, provided the … Read more…