1995-11-08 Sender: Fred Baube <•••@••.•••> Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Henry Huang: > From: Henry Huang <•••@••.•••> > Subject: Re: System administrators to be help responsible for content [cr-95/11/07] > > > In third case (Religious Technology Center v. NETCOM), > > the Church of Scientology is suing a BBS operator and an Internet … Read more…
1995-11-08 Pointers from moderator: The Alliance for Community Media is hosting a conference in Newark, New Jersey on December 8 and 9 on media and political issues. Write me if you’d like to see their announcement. A new book on the social value of the Net, called “NetWorld,” has been written by David Rothman. (You … Read more…
1995-11-08 Henry Huang On Nov 7, 13:50, Cyber Rights wrote: > [This is the third of a series of articles discussing recommendations made in > the report issued September 5, 1995 by President Clinton’s Information > Infrastructure Task Force. The report is entitled “Intellectual Property and > the National Information Infrastructure (NII),” and is commonly … Read more…
1995-11-07 Sender: Jack Decker <•••@••.•••> If any of your readers are in Michigan, you might want to visit the Michigan Telecommunications Act rewrite page at either of the following URL’s: http://www.novagate.com/~jack/mta.html http://www.rust.net/~jack/mta.html This page is a great example of what you get when the phone companies are allowed to craft the legislation they want. This … Read more…
1995-11-07 Introduction from moderator: You may remember the Clinton administration’s White Paper on copyright, which I have mentioned on this list and which has engendered a lot of controversy because it promotes the interests of copyright holders over users. A twist that I haven’t seen before is discussed in the Computer Law Report #13, published … Read more…
1995-11-07 Sender: Dov Wisebrod <•••@••.•••> > BOULDER, COLORADO, November 1, 1995. The 90’s Channel—-this >country’s only full-time progressive cable television network—was >forced off the air at midnight last night on seven cable systems >operated by Tele-Communications, Inc. due to a massive rate increase. >The channel was faced with the choice of paying TCI almost $250,000 … Read more…
1995-11-07 Sender: Bob Turner <•••@••.•••> You wrote that you hoped someone had the good will to write freeware Go to: http://www.xmission.com/~seer/jdksoftware/ There you will find an excellent filter called The Internet Filter Version 0 It’s yours.. free Best Regards ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram – •••@••.••• – Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) You are encouraged to forward … Read more…
1995-11-07 Sender: •••@••.••• (Marilyn Davis) Mark Stahlman said: > Sorry, but it could get a whole lot worse. In fact, in this place at this > time, a dramatically worse fate for us all is virtually inevitable under > hyper-democracy. Therefore, reasonable men and women have no choice but to > oppose hyper-democracy with all … Read more…
1995-11-07 Sender: •••@••.••• (Shabbir J. Safdar, VTW) Re: Organizations Needed to Sign Letter Against Online Indecency Legislation [cr-95/11/03] Of course that is what I meant. I found the typo after I blew out the alert to the entire world. Of course, that’s the beauty of the net. You can embarass yourself in front of millions … Read more…
1995-11-06 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> This certainly graphically makes the point about monopolistic control. TCI management is known to be a little to the right of Attila the Hun anyway, but this is abhorrent. Though it is evidence of the dangers of excessive concentration, it does not ipso facto mean that all media companies … Read more…