1995-11-13 Sender: •••@••.••• (Faye M. Anderson) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TELEVISION BROADCASTERS: THE NEW WELFARE KINGS By Faye M. Anderson Everywhere you look in Washington these days, you’ll find someone who is out to end welfare as we know it. Problem is, the welfare programs that they want to reform tend to include just Aid to Families with … Read more…
1995-11-13 Sender: •••@••.••• CONFERENCE COMMITTEE & STAFF RESOURCE LIST SENATE Leaders – Pressler & Hollings with area code & prefix 202-224 Telecommunication Industry BILL COMMITTEE MEMBER PHONE FAX PAC $ MAIN CONTRIBUTOR TITLES & Staff Larry Pressler (R-SD) 5842 103,165 LEC & RBOCs All Paddy Link, Donald McClelland, Katie King, Chip Pickering Ted Stevens (R-A) … 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…
1995-11-08 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 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 Sender: •••@••.••• (El Tiburon) Are there any advisory councils that are advising Congresspersons as to what is applicable to the Internet, possible on the Internet and Constitutional with respect to the Internet (or any other facets of impending and current legislation)? Are these groups privately sponsored, publicly owned, and/or committees setup by the govt … Read more…
1995-11-08 Sender: •••@••.••• (Glen Raphael) >JUMPING THE GUN ON SYSOP LIABILITY […] >The White Paper makes various recommendations for legislative changes which >it hopes will grease the onramps to the Information Highway. This “greasing” is presumably done so that people attempting to steer high-performance equipment onto the Information Highway skid off the Information Embankment and … Read more…
1995-11-08 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> CR> Sender: •••@••.••• CR> Subject: Internet Regulation? CR> how do they expect to regulate an international medium? Firstly, by setting standards that others will follow: most countries are quite confused about cyberspace (at least the governments are) and worried by it. As I said before, if ever there is a … Read more…
1995-11-08 Introduction from moderator: Given the debate we’ve had on this list about hyperdemocracy (sometimes fairly emotional) I thought you’d be interested in seeing another experiment along these lines. Supposedly just a game! America Online users can get to the game by going to the keyword access.point. Andy ———————————————————————- Date: 07 Nov 95 19:23:32 EST … Read more…
1995-11-08 Sender: •••@••.••• (Glen Raphael) As a CPSR member, I have problems with the proposed telecom document. I apparently just don’t get it. Let’s see: > In a direct blow to diversity, the bill raises the percentage of > national audience that a single person or company can reach from > 25% to 35%. If … Read more…