1995-10-26 Sender: “W. Curtiss Priest” <•••@••.•••> October 20, 1995 CITS Observations on attached article: Dr. W. Curtiss Priest This upcoming program reveals a facet to the information highway that sounds Orwellian — subscribers to Prodigy, AOL, etc. are having their “every move” recorded. The reason? To better sell to you. Indeed, retailers want to move … Read more…
1995-10-26 Sender: •••@••.••• (joe donnelly) how about sending the original, uncensored message, labelled as “Uncensored”, followed by your altered version? Readers can select the one which satisfies their preferences/prejudices. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Sender: •••@••.••• Steve, In a message dated 95-10-25 19:15:50 EDT, you write: >Any seconds? The seconds are ticking away…in fact, some have already ticked off … Read more…
1995-10-26 Introduction from moderator: I finished this document yesterday. CPSR leadership is now talking about officially adopting it; I’ll hear from them by Tuesday. Because the very last paragraph promotes it as a CPSR document and it hasn’t received official blessing, I’m not yet ready to send it to the media, politicians, etc. But you … Read more…
1995-10-26 Henry Huang On Oct 26, 13:08, •••@••.••• wrote: > If pictures, names, addresses and home phone numbers had to be on everything > that went out over the Net I wonder how much of a concern censorship would > even be. How much of a problem would child porn (or any generally conceived > … Read more…
1995-10-25 The Alliance for Public Technology (APT) is pleased to invite you to attend our one-day Boston/Northeast Regional Meeting which is described below. There is no charge to attend. Reserve your seat early by returning the completed registration form. Hope to see you there! Take care, Ruth Ruth Holder Alliance for Public Technology (APT) | … Read more…
1995-10-25 The issue of hate speech has gotten people more incensed than anything else on this list. Different forums have different mores, so I’ll go along with the desires of the readers and not cut words on this list any more. But along with complaints (and occasional support for my action) people have made some … Read more…
1995-10-24 Pointers from moderator: In September, the Clinton Administration released a long report title “Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure.” As I reported here, it generated a lot of controversy for being slanted toward publishers’ needs and away from the needs of users, teachers, etc. Now an online journal called the Computer Law Report … Read more…
1995-10-24 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> CR> So much for Kurt’s cyber-rights – partially down the drain thanks CR> to Andy. Reading the responses to Andy’s clean-up of Kurt’s language, I would like to suggest that more than “Kurt’s cyber-rights”, what went down the drain was some politeness? OK, maybe what Andy did wasn’t such a … Read more…
1995-10-24 (Forwarded from the telecomreg mailing list–Andy.) I wrote the following brief review to be submitted to a daily here in Seattle. Unfortunately, the book was not as new as I had thought (it was released in August). Perhaps it may be of value to someone here…. Brennon M. Martin School of Communications, Box 353740 … Read more…
1995-10-24 Subject: Euro-Encryption / Re: Summary and looking ahead [cr-95/10/19] Andy wrote: > How do we answer the Council of Europe’s proposal to outlaw PGP > and similar forms of encryption that protect private > communications from the eyes of governments? Can we start a > campaign in European countries to preserve the right of … Read more…