1996-03-31 Craig A. Johnson @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 15:26:58 -0500 From: Dave Farber <•••@••.•••> Subject: IP: IP: Reforming the Communications Decency Act: To: •••@••.••• (interesting-people mailing list) From: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> To: Dave Farber <•••@••.•••> Dave, FYI, this interview is somewhat disingenuous, since Eshoo’s bill is an attempt to install a standard … Read more…
1996-03-31 Craig A. Johnson While Representative Eshoo deserves kudos for her understanding of online issues, the following interview is very disappointing in some critical respects, and misleading in others. One might ask, for instance, if the courts are going to “knock out… [the indecency standard],” as she suggests, and if “parental empowerment” software is available … Read more…
1996-03-31 NorthStar has an article about a secret “dirty word list” that AOL uses to censor postings. According to the author, people’s postings get deleted for unknown reasons and no one can make AOL say what its policy is. Email me if you would like the article. Telecommunications Policy Roundtable (a coalition of public interest … Read more…
1996-03-31 Sender: •••@••.••• hi. i am not a dicedpuppy, i am dicedpupys, the pluralistic and mispelling advocate for *cybeRIGHTS!!!* (egotistical trumpet blare, please). anyway. i wasn’t aware that congress jerked the fcc around (not to be sarcastic). and i am not trying to write our pr by commitee, where did this come from? i’m asking … Read more…
1996-03-31 (The following is reposted by permission from the American Reporter. You can freely redistribute it so long as you keep the name, place, date, slug and price section intact. Please be aware that this is an exception, and the American Reporter usually does not permit reposting. This article, along with many others, is at … Read more…
1996-03-31 Craig A. Johnson On 28 Mar 96 at 19:58, Marilyn Davis <•••@••.•••> wrote: > > Craig A. Johnson <•••@••.•••> wrote: > > > To repeat, the co-leadership of Cyber Rights has made no decision to > > undertake this “project.” It seems to me it is useful to get > > I’m surprised to … Read more…
1996-03-31 Craig A. Johnson @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 11:56:11 -0500 From: Dave Farber <•••@••.•••> Subject: IP: End-to-end philosophy endangered To: •••@••.••• (interesting-people mailing list) From: “David P. Reed” <•••@••.•••> Subject: End-to-end philosophy endangered Friends – I’d like to call your attention to a situation where misguided politics (of the “ends-justify-means” sort) threatens one … Read more…
1996-03-30 Sender: •••@••.••• Whats the story on the CNN report that the good Madam Reno has busted a hacker through wiretaps? R.Smith (Here’s what I gleaned from today’s Boston Globe newspaper: the intruder was in Argentina, and broke into accounts at several U.S. universities and military sites, although nothing “vital to national security” was taken … Read more…
1996-03-30 Sender: •••@••.••• (M.Torres) Partial post: > SECURITY, PRIVACY, COSTS AND MARKETING ON THE INTERNET: > DO WE NEED REGULATION AND PROTECTION? > >Once again, the Centre for Technology Studies (University of >Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada) is embarking on an Internet >venture to hopefully shed some light on various issues affecting >our PRIVACY AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA. … Read more…
1996-03-30 Sender: Joe Shea <•••@••.•••> dicedpuppy wrote: true, congress and the pres aren’t trying to interfere with net economics, but the fcc is. and as i said in a previous letter, our own “leadership” suggested interference by the fcc in economics. I’d just parenthetically comment that the FCC does little that doesn’t reflect pressure from … Read more…