1996-03-29 Todd Lappin Ladies and Gentlemen, I’ve seen the smoking gun. Last night, I received a copy of a White House document which confirms my ugliest fears about President Bill Clinton’s attitude toward the Communications Decency Act. Herein we have unpleasant proof that the current President of the United States is WAY psyched to censor … Read more…

1996-03-29 Craig A. Johnson @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ _____ _____ _______ / ____| __ __ __| ____ ___ ____ __ | | | | | | | | / __ ____ / (_)______ __ / __ ____ _____/ /_ | | | | | | | | / /_/ / __ / / / ___/ / / / … Read more…

1996-03-28 Sender: •••@••.••• (Marilyn Davis) Craig A. Johnson <•••@••.•••> wrote: > To repeat, the co-leadership of Cyber Rights has made no decision to > undertake this “project.” It seems to me it is useful to get I’m surprised to hear you claim this list has some official “leadership”. I was only aware of a generous … Read more…

1996-03-28 Sender: •••@••.••• (Jerome Thorel) netizen’s –> Lambda Bulletin 2.05 <– contents + Belgium discovers strong encryption rules; France will adopt electronic locksmiths + France experiences its first online censorship trail + French Minitel (foolish) war on the Internet * * * * * ==+== Belgium discovers strong encryption rules; France will adopt electronic locksmiths … Read more…

1996-03-28 CDT announces that a new bill was introduced into U.S. Congress to repeal the old defense-related restrictions on encryption exports. I’ll forward the newsletter to anyone who’s interested. I was sent the final schedule for the Infowar conference, which takes place in Brussels on May 23-24, 1996 and concentrates on: Personal Privacy Industrial and … Read more…

1996-03-28 Richard Moore Someone asked: >Circuits? Could someone please enlighten me on this? Each Internet message (packet?), if I understand it right, is independently routed through the network. The advantage is that network management is trivial, a node can go down, and traffic automatically routes around it immediately, without any central authority notifying everyone to … Read more…

1996-03-28 Richard Moore 3/28/96, Andy wrote: >we have a ground-breaking purpose: to find a consensus statement. >Does something like the following draft work better for Martin and >Glen and perhaps still carry Richard and others? ________________________________________________________________ We, the 500 members of the cyber-rights email list, agree by consensus that: 1. Email is the communication/cooperation superhighway, … Read more…

1996-03-28 Craig A. Johnson @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ On 27 Mar 96 at 17:56, Marilyn Davis wrote: > Andy wrote: > > > We have been indulging in some highly idealistic discussions of > > Internet sovereignty and democratic pricing schemes on this list, but > > I’d like to put out a request that we all spend … Read more…

1996-03-27 Sender: Rupert Schmutzer <•••@••.•••> Fellow subscribers! I would like to invite all of you to participate in my research on the emancipatory and democratizing potential of New Media. Please visit this WWW-page to fill out a questionnaire: http://www.wsr.ac.at/ihs-html/soc/projects/rup/eintro.html (OR: request an email-version from •••@••.•••) The questionnaire deals with the impact of New Media on … Read more…

1996-03-27 Sender: •••@••.••• (Marilyn Davis) Andy wrote: > We have been indulging in some highly idealistic discussions of > Internet sovereignty and democratic pricing schemes on this list, but > I’d like to put out a request that we all spend more time responding > to contemporary, urgent decisions that are being made right now … Read more…