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 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 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 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…
1996-03-30 Sender: •••@••.••• hi. tonight i learned something which makes me laugh. you see, i was watching, well it was something like “inside the fbi” on pbs. one part of it was about that now-dead, all-american facist, john edgar hoover. it told of his abuses of power and provided some useful parallels for our own … Read more…
1996-03-30 …with deregulation, technological progress, and universal service in telecommunications. (I am speaking for myself here, not as moderator.) The Economic Community is trying to break down the state-mandated monopolies that currently offer telecom in most European countries. They want to allow companies to offer services in different countries. If anything, the upheavals caused by … Read more…
1996-03-30 Sender: MichaelP <•••@••.•••> The FCC address <http://www.fcc.gov/> contains a lot of interesting stuff. For instance the complete FCC met on March 8 to hold a hearing on SPECTRUM POLICY. You find the hearing transcript at Filename: http://www.fcc.gov/Reports/enbanc_spectrum.rpt.txt As to the subject of internet telephony here’s the complete FCC request for comments: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ PUBLIC NOTICE … Read more…
1996-03-30 Introduction: I’ll just speak for myself here, because I find myself going beyond the role of moderator. It appears that Representative Eshoo has German counterparts. While the following bill avoids some of the pervasive fear that the CDA engenders, there are still plenty of problems. What is offensive? If somebody complains about something on … 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…
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…