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: 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: •••@••.••• (El Tiburon) From: The Internet Users Consortium (•••@••.••• and •••@••.•••) REBIRTH OF OUR RIGHTS The recent discovery of Cyberspace has caused a national reexamination of many aspects of the Bill of Rights. Freedom of the Press is no longer restricted to those who happen to own a Press, as in A.J. Leibling’s … 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 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…

1995-10-07 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 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 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 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…

1995-10-06 Sender: •••@••.••• (Don Porter) On Oct 03, 1995 02:45:09, ‘Cyber Rights <•••@••.•••>’ wrote: > I want to know what all of you on this list think of my idea. Is it >appropriate for the image of the cyber-rights group? Effective? Accurate? As a survivor of the ’60s, I’m always in favor of a little … Read more…