1995-09-16 Sender: •••@••.••• I agree with Kurt that no single authority should dictate content of the Internet and that no one entity should set prices. The Internet, although I don’t understand every aspect of it, seems to be most threatened by big conglomerates setting prices too high for access by all to be feasible. If … Read more…
1995-09-16 Sender: •••@••.••• I was told recently by a friend that if I wanted to know the truth about something, to “turn off the sound and watch the picture”. Since the sound levels are so high (as stated by Bob Jacobson), this might be good advice. High sound levels are distracting, but that is the … Read more…
1995-09-15 Thanks to Craig Johnson, our ftp site now has a newsletter from Electronic Frontiers Australia, an organization with goals similar to the U.S.’s Electronic Frontier Foundation. The newsletter is in the Announcements directory under the name Electronic-Frontiers-Australia, and I can send it to you if you don’t have access to the Web or ftp. … Read more…
1995-09-15 Sender: Vigdor Schreibman – FINS <•••@••.•••> On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Cyber Rights wrote: > Sender: MARK STAHLMAN <•••@••.•••> > Subject: Re: PFF Agenda > > Folks: > > Give up on the Magna Carta. It’s dead, dead, dead. There was no attempt to > discuss it at this year’s event and there is … Read more…
1995-09-15 Sender: •••@••.••• (Jerome Thorel) Yes, I saw a WSJ article about this High-Tech alliance : >HIGH-TECH ALLIANCE AGAINST PORN >A group of high-tech companies, including IBM, Microsoft, AT&T, MCI, America >Online, Netscape Communications, Time Warner and Viacom, is forming an >alliance to fight cyberporn. The group will be coordinated by the >Massachusetts Institute of … Read more…
1995-09-15 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> Good news on the cyber liberties front from Colorado. A federal judge cited “the [electronic] free exchange of ideas” as serving the “public interest,” as he ordered the return of computers and files to FACTnet Tuesday. Below is the New York Times story on the ruling. Craig ================================================== SCIENTOLOGISTS … Read more…
1995-09-15 Sender: “Steve Eppley” <•••@••.•••> David Cloutman <•••@••.•••> wrote: ><much unneeded political posturing deleted> >I caught a bit of a TV show last night that apparently might answer your >question. Appearently forensics experts can retrieve deleted files from a >hard disk. Short of reformatting the drive, there is no way to actually >erase a file … Read more…
1995-09-15 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> Without knowing all the details, I think we can cautiously applaud this bust by the Feds. One of the main arguments by would-be Congressional censors, reintroduced yesterday in a bill by Senate Judciary Comm. Chairman Orrin Hatch has been that child porn is freely available all over the Net. … Read more…
1995-09-15 Sender: •••@••.••• Subject: Re: Brooklyn Conference “FREE SPEECH OR FILTH: SHOULD CONGRESS REGULATE COMMUNICATIONS ON THE INTERNET?” The Brooklyn Law School Cyberlaw Society is sponsoring a symposium on the free speech battle on the Internet. The symposium will be held on Thursday, September 21, in the Subotnick Conference Center (10th Floor) at 7 p.m., … Read more…
1995-09-15 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 01:09:30 -0700 >Subject: Re: PFF Agenda [cr-95/9/4] >Sender: •••@••.••• (Glen Raphael) > >> Cyberspace Inc and the Robber Baron Age > >The current consensus view of economists is that the 19th century “trusts” >were generally pro-consumer and breaking them up was anti-consumer. “Concensus view”? There’s more … Read more…