1996-01-07 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 Sender: •••@••.••• (Patrick Brennan) Subject: Compuserve Caves In Again As you may know, the French government is working hard to ensure that their language does not get “corrupted” by influences from other languages. They have recently begun strongly enforcing their law that at least 40% of … Read more…
1996-01-07 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> Subject: India and the GII Announcing a new mailing list, India-GII, which looks at the road that India is taking towards a Global Information Infrastructure (or Highway), the opportunities that this presents, and the problems along the way. Specifically, what we hope … Read more…
1996-01-07 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 Sender: •••@••.••• (David S. Bennahum) Subject: Internet and U.S. cultural elite. There are several reasons why the Internet censorship proposals moved through the Congress with lopsidedly favorable votes. I want to address just one of these. Looking back at the outcome (barring a Clinton veto), I … Read more…
1996-01-06 Craig A. Johnson The following is an excerpt from EFF’s online bulletin EFFector, Friday 5 January 1996. (Subscription and other information is at the end of the post.) Anna Eshoo is a conference committee member who is deeply concerned about the throttling of the Net which may result from the censorship provision in the … Read more…
1996-01-05 Craig A. Johnson Todd Lappin, WIRED Staff Editor sent me this well-done, concise overview of some of the primary First Amendment issues which will face the Net community if the “decency” standard prevails (which, at this writing, seems almost inevitable). Todd’s summary is a valuable complement to some of the longer analyses we have … Read more…
1996-01-05 Craig A. Johnson Sounds like a promising initiative. (Anyone care to ask Tom what effect he thinks the “indecency” censorship standard will have on online education?) Craig ============================================== Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 00:52:51 -0500 From: •••@••.••• (Tom Kalil) Subject: NetDay Please support NetDay96!! What is NetDay? * On March 9, 1996, thousands of … Read more…
1996-01-05 Craig A. Johnson May be worth a look. –caj =============================================== CDT Executive Director Jerry Berman is scheduled to appear on CNN’s Larry King Live with Senator Jim Exon (D-NE) and Donna Rice (anti-porn activist) at 9:00 pm Eastern Time TONIGHT (Friday Jan 5, 1996). This promises to be an interesting and exciting debate.
1996-01-05 Richard Moore The Dublin node is now back up and all is well. I’ve got a long queue of postings I’ll process before the weekend is over. Thanks for your patience. -rkm
1996-01-04 Richard Moore There’s a node down in Dublin that prevents my mail from arriving. You can reach me meanwhile at “•••@••.•••” for regular messages or for postings. I’m not sure when the node will come back up — it might be today, or it might be Monday. I can still send things & post … Read more…
1996-01-04 Craig A. Johnson Folks, As you have read, Richard’s node is down. Henry Huang and I will be posting what we can until Richard is back, but please expect the list traffic to be a little thin for the next few days. Thanks. Craig A. Johnson Cyber Rights Co-Leader I sent the following message … Read more…