1995-10-09 Sender: Glenn van Loggerenberg <•••@••.•••> Hello. I am a Journalism student at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. One of my fourth year courses is Cultural Studies. I am a poor surfer and am asking for your assistance in finding some information. I am interested in the cultural effect of a civilisation relocating its … Read more…
1995-10-09 Sender: •••@••.••• Sorry Andy, I have to agree with RKM.. I feel it is ALWAYS better strategy to take the offense than go on the defense! •••@••.••• •••@••.••• @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ On 7 Oct 95 at 1:03, Richard K. Moore wrote: > > Don Porter wrote: > >I have a suspicion that some folks will read … Read more…
1995-10-09 Sender: •••@••.••• (Allan Bradley) >This was the basis for a bill advanced in the California legislature in >1981, by Assemblyman Robinson; it was crushed by the cable interests in >California, who were all too familiar with Pruneyard. Later, we tried >to clarify that electronic communications were equivalent to oral and >written speech, via a … Read more…
1995-10-08 Richard Moore Dear CR, I wrote the piece at the bottom in response to a question Rob Frieden posted to telecomreg. He evidently found it useful, given his response, immediately below. I hope it is of interest to this list. Cheers, Richard >==========================================. >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 15:54 EDT >From: “Rob Frieden” <•••@••.•••> … Read more…
1995-10-07 Richard Moore Don Porter wrote: >I have a suspicion that some folks will read more into this paragraph than >is probably intended. They may well take references to unsatisfied urges to >include pedophilia and child pornography in the literal, and not just >literary sense. Some might accuse you of declaring open season on kids. … Read more…
1995-10-07 Pointer from moderator: An incisive analysis, found by Craig Johnson, of the new key-escrow policy being pushed by the federal government appears on our ftp site in the Re-Legislation directory under the name Clipper-II. Daniel Brandt argues, in an article for the leftist NY Transfer News Collective, that a war against hackers is going … Read more…
1995-10-07 Introduction by moderator: The following interesting post about the protection of political activity was posted to the telecomreg mailing list, which has a lot of good information (although the number of messages is much higher than on cyber-rights). Courts have ruled that political activists can promote their ideas at shopping malls as if they … Read more…
1995-10-07 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 11:22:14 -0400 Reply-To: •••@••.••• Sender: •••@••.••• Precedence: bulk From: •••@••.••• (Anthony E. Wright) To: Multiple recipients of list <•••@••.•••> Subject: CME/CFA Poll on Media Concentrations Mime-Version: 1.0 As mentioned in this week’s Telecommunications Policy Roundtable (October 1995) meeting, here is the press release announcing the results of a CME/CFA … Read more…
1995-10-07 Richard Moore Dear CR, This likes one of the simplest and most sensible proposals for regulation of Internet content I’ve seen. #3, especially, makes sense, and would preserve open dialog on the net. I’m not convinced #2 is totally valid. #1 is long overdue — the net community seems to be largely ignored by … Read more…
1995-10-06 Introduction by moderator: I am including the long post below because every topic in it applies to a discussion we’ve had on this list. I’m not going to post the updates regularly, though–I encourage readers to subscribe for themselves, as described at the end of the post. You can extrapolate from the discussion on … Read more…