1995-10-11 Sender: Robert Jacobson <•••@••.•••> Allan Bradley and I are on the same wavelength. I do not agree, however, that “how we debate technological issues is irrelevant to the fact that technology will be with us,” or words to that extent. The discourse we enter has much to do with how we are permitted to … Read more…

1995-10-11 Sender: •••@••.••• (Sandra Bernstein) This is pretty evocative historically. Many of the Dutch people (non-Jews), and I believe their royal family, chose to wear yellow stars during the Nazi occupation. Interesting that this tradition of resistance carries on. Sandra > >On the topic of civil disobedience, an interesting challenge is going >on in the … Read more…

1995-10-11 Sender: •••@••.••• (The Network Project) Subject: Rights to a domain name I am with an organization that has requested a .net domain name from Internic. We are a start-up non-profit organization with plans for running our own server and providing various Internet services for our members, including web page hosting and E-mail forwarding services. … Read more…

1995-10-11 Sender: •••@••.••• (El Tiburon) From the Internet Users Consortium In the latest move in our government’s on-going effort to oulaw strong encryption technology, FBI director, Louis Freeh, has hinted broadly that if the general public does not ‘voluntarily’ accept some sort of public-key encryption, then the FBI might be forced to pursue ‘other options’. … Read more…

1995-10-11 Sender: Lazlo Nibble <•••@••.•••> Maybe I’m just not noticing the controversy, but I think it’s more than a little ironic that I’ve heard all kinds of whinging about the Newt Gingrich article in the current New Yorker but *not one word* about the fact that the issue in question includes a full-frontal nude photo … Read more…

1995-10-11 Pointer from moderator: If you’ve been here since the beginning of the cyber-rights list, you remember that one of the earliest documents we circulated was then-moderator Richard K. Moore’s critique of the Magna Carta from Newt Gingrich’s Progress and Freedom Foundation. Richard has rewritten this analysis and published it in the Information Society journal, … Read more…

1995-10-10 (This is my personal posting; I am not acting as moderator. Please excuse cross-postings. I am posting to lists where these issues are discussed regularly, and where I participate.) Back on September 7, Coralee Whitcomb posted a request from Jamie Love for a document with the title shown above. I thought this was a … Read more…

1995-10-10 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> On 8 Oct 95 at 1:03, Richard K. Moore wrote: > > 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 … Read more…

1995-10-10 Recently I told you all about a Web page I was working on that would offer a hard-hitting criticism of the Communications Decency Act and related bills. I’ve finished the page, although it is always open to suggestions. It’s broad rather than deep, but I think it represents a contribution to the Internet debate … 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…