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- 'Child Porn Is Not Free Speech' - Prodigy says kiddie porn is not a subtle issue: It's illegal, period, and the service will block several dozen newsgroups that promise it. Some civil libertarians, while agreeing on the legality issue, are disturbed at a new trend toward self-censorship. [Wired News]
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- 'Electronic Sunshine' Bill Advances - California Senate legislation, and matching bill in the Assembly, would require candidates who raise US$50,000 or more to file electronic campaign-donation reports. [Wired News]
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- 'Harm to Minors' Could KO CDA in Round Two - With the fate of the federal Net decency law in doubt, lawmakers and others anticipate new legal strategies for Round Two. [Wired News]
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- 'Open' Spam Summit Starts behind Closed Doors - As a follow-up to the FTC's June session on spam, civil libertarians, junk emailers, policy junkies, computer companies, and ISPs discuss what, if any, action should be taken. [Wired News]
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- 'Silicon Seven' Surrender - Seven executives and engineers involved with Avant turn themselves in to authorities in San Jose, California, on charges they stole code from rival software firm Cadence. [Wired News]
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- 'Thanks for This Important Commitment' - President Clinton got reporters' adrenaline flowing with his announcement that some of the big Web directories would begin asking sites to rate themselves. It was good copy, but there was nearly nothing to it. [Wired News]
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- 'Twas a Dark and Storied Fright: My '97 Nightmare - Cultural-demise hysteria is made real when Gates, Rossetto, Bennett, and Dogg rule - in Jon Katz's bad dream. [Wired News]
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- ... And That's What Encryption Is - Asked to define an issue that's the subject of important legislation he's sponsoring, Senator Bob Kerrey comes up scramblng. [Wired News]
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- 3 Firms Granted 56-bit Encryption Export - The Commerce Department approves export of stronger encryption - with a key recovery system. [Wired News]
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- 31 Nabbed, 1,500 Fingered in Net Kid-Porn Sting - The New York attorney general discloses the results of an investigation with global dimensions, but a courtroom opponent sees a more limited agenda in the announcement. [Wired News]
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- 900 Numbers Get More Scrutiny from FTC - "All nude, all free" case of Internet fraud prompts the Federal Trade Commission to review its policy on 900 numbers. [Wired News]
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- A Hard Lesson in Wiring Schools - The real world of city schools that President Clinton and friends want to get connected to the Net is full of pitfalls. [Wired News]
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- A Net Lover and His DIY Journalism Dream - San Francisco's Ken McCarthy adheres to the muckraking dictum, 'Question everything.' That's led him to question police findings in the death of a bicyclist - and to try to poke holes in other local pieces of conventional wisdom. [Wired News]
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- A New Crypto Furor - The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection has spoken: Among other things, it says, the nation needs to give government access to citizens' encrypted data to remain really secure. [Wired News]
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- A Non-Decision in Filterware Debate - A Santa Clara County board was asked to reaffirm libraries' policy of open access on Net terminals. It hung back from such a declaration, seeking time to study the issue. [Wired News]
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- A Really New Twist in Online Voting - Abortion.com thoughtfully asks you to cast a ballot, pro-choice or anti-abortion, and promises to send the results to Washington. But the site might be better named Heads-I-Win-Tails-You-Lose.com. [Wired News]
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- A Revolution of Sloppy Thinking - Just because the Net provides the technological ability to institute Ross Perot's notion of an electronic town hall doesn't mean that we should adopt such a system. [Wired News]
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- A Telco Victory on Road to Cable Competition - An FCC decision in a New York-area case prompts hopes in some quarters that the cable industry may soon be forced to make programming available to other carriers. [Wired News]
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- A Web Week in Review - Reflections on Microsoft's and Disney's Web footholds. [Wired News]
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- Abortion.com Suspends Poll - The numbers were fishy, the host was fighting off hackers, and now the anonymous sponsors of an online abortion survey have stopped asking for "pro-choice" or "pro-life" votes. [Wired News]
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- ACLU Aims for $25 Million Endowment - The civil liberties champion is seeking to raise a fund to guarantee its operation as new rights challenges arise in cyberspace. [Wired News]
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- ACLU Seeks to Block New York's CDA - The ACLU and other plaintiffs ask for a preliminary injunction against the law restricting free speech on the Net. [Wired News]
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- ACLU Takes on Virginia Net Decency Law - Expanding its campaign to shoot down state and local censorship statutes, the civil liberties organization targets a law that makes it illegal for some professors to check out risqu Victorian poems. [Wired News]
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- ACLU, ALA Challenge New York Decency Law - The ALA and ACLU seek a permanent injunction against the state's version of the CDA. [Wired News]
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- ACLU: Gambling Bill Would Turn ISPs Into Cops - The Department of Justice has been ineffective on cyberwagers. Will a Senate bill bring better enforcement? [Wired News]
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- ACLU: Labeling May Lead to Lost Liberty - Condemning both feel-good government and compliant industry forces, the free-speech champion declares that self-ratings will diminish the victory born from the CDA's death. [Wired News]
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- Action Group Protests Microsoft's Education Initiative - Grassroots organizers allege that an upcoming project in California schools will create a monopoly for Microsoft, one of the group's sponsors. A student walkout is planned today. [Wired News]
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- Activists Down on Child Porn Act Decision - A federal judge's ruling on a law that makes non-obscene depictions of what would appear to be minors engaged in sexual activity sets off free-speech advocates. [Wired News]
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- Administration Grabs at Crypto Keys - Privacy advocates say the White House's draft legislation will make it too easy for cops to get your encrypted data. [Wired News]
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- After Hundt, a New Cast for the FCC - The Chairman's departure paves the way for more shuffling; by the end of the year, four out of five members of the powerful commission will be new in their jobs. [Wired News]
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- Agent of Cultural Evolution - Bejing Scene is part of an information explosion that may one day change civil society in China. [Wired News]
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- AGIS Nears Decision on Cyber Promotions - Sanford Wallace's court-ordered service reprieve is running out, and his backbone provider appears ready to sever his spam empire's Net connection. [Wired News]
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- Air-Defense Base Put on Terror Alert - Responding to an FBI warning related to the upcoming anniversaries of violence in Waco and Oklahoma City, the Air Force heightens security at the NORAD complex in Colorado Springs. [Wired News]
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- Airwave Odyssey Signals Diverse Spectrum - Jon Katz spends the night on Tom Snyder's late late show and the morning on public radio, and finds freedom and insight. [Wired News]
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- Alaska's Big Connector - At 76, Red Boucher is the most prominent digital evangelist in the "Last Frontier". [Wired News]
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- All Nude! All Free! ... Yeah, Right - The Federal Trade Commission gets a court order to shut down adult Web sites that sucker unsuspecting surfers into outrageous long-distance rates. [Wired News]
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- AlterNIC Activist Going to Court - Eugene Kashpureff's redirection of InterNIC traffic has earned him a US arrest warrant and a stay in a Toronto jail that's at five days and counting. [Wired News]
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- AlterNIC's Kashpureff Still Behind Bars - A Toronto hearing on deporting the domain-name guerrilla to the United States to face federal wire-fraud charges is continued until Monday. [Wired News]
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- Ameritech Has Long-Term Cable Game Plan - In complaining to the FCC that it can't get fair access to cable programming quickly enough to battle more established rivals, the telco is just making the first move in an involved game. [Wired News]
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- Ameritech's Expansion Stumbles - For Now - The first Baby Bell to seek long-distance carrier status has seen its application invalidated by regulators. But it's not down for the count. [Wired News]
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- Amid Cycling Uproar, Evidence Goes Online - San Francisco media and politicians are still roiling over last month's chaotic Critical Mass ride. Exhibits for cyclists' case against police have their own home on the Web. [Wired News]
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- An Attempt to Hobble House Crypto Bill - Representative Benjamin Gilman, a New York Republican, doesn't like legislation that would loosen national encryption policy. Having lost a vote earlier this week, he is circulating an amendment that would nullify the bill's most important provisions. [Wired News]
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- An Ex-Mayor Joins the Netizenry - Sharon Pratt Kelly of Washington, DC, launches a site she hopes will help empower fellow citizens and help her campaign for a constitutional convention to create a more direct democracy. [Wired News]
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- Annoy.com Jumps into CDA Fray - Annoy.com and the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court supporting a challenge to the Communications Decency Act. [Wired News]
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- Annoy.com May Get Its Way in Court - The site that offers users the chance to send anonymous, goading messages to politicians may have convinced a panel of judges of the need to quickly decide whether the site violates an obscure provision of the CDA, and whether that provision is constitutional. [Wired News]
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- Annoy.com Still Waits for Day in Court - The in-your-face Web site, bent on violating the Communications Decency Act by striking an irritatingly annoying attitude, won't get a hearing until after the Supreme Court ruling. [Wired News]
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- Annoyed in Maryland? Hold Your Email - Maryland lawmakers try to criminalize sending embarrassing and abusive email. But does their language offend the spirit of the Constitution? [Wired News]
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- Another Domain-Registration Battle Breaks Out - The National Science Foundation injects some new turbulence into the worldwide debate over the Internet name-game by announcing it won't renew its contract with Network Solutions. [Wired News]
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- Another View of the Net: New Minority Agora - Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Irving says that the decline in minority-owned radio and TV stations is driving young African Americans toward a new place where they can hear and be heard: The Internet. [Wired News]
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- Anti-MS Gadfly Hits Browser Campaign - NetAction, trying to spur more government antitrust examination of Redmond, says ISPs are helping squeeze out Netscape. [Wired News]
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- Antiporn Pusher - She's poised, articulate, and media savvy - and she wants to censor what's on the Net. Meet Cathy Cleaver, in Scans. [Wired News]
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- AOL Calls Class Action Suit Frivolous - A shareholders' suit claims AOL and some of its senior execs took advantage of inflated AOL stock values before news of financial setbacks was revealed. [Wired News]
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- AOL Plays Anti-Pedophile Strategy Close to Vest - While content providers vow to become virtual Net deputies in the war against kiddie porn and the pervs who love it, America Online is close-lipped about its intentions. [Wired News]
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- AOL Tightens British User Rules - America Online makes some changes to its terms-of-service contract to make it clear that the government will have access to user data and that the use of encryption will be limited. [Wired News]
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- AOL to Take Down Serial-Killer Site - The world's biggest online service faced a boycott threat over the appearance of a site that served as a platform for two convicted serial killers. [Wired News]
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- Arguments Heard in Encryption Challenge - Karn v. Department of State will decide whether code is protected speech. [Wired News]
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- Army's Computer Corps Meets 'Death' in Desert - A dramatic increase in friendly fire mistakes marks a US Army exercise that tested the capabilities of its next-generation fighting force. [Wired News]
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- As Britain Withdraws, New Royalty Reigns - As the whole world watched the end of a century and a half of British imperial glory, a crowd that wanted no part of the historic scene gathered to watch a coronation. Also, Wired News' complete series on Hong Kong's transition. [Wired News]
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- At Play in the Fields of the Web - Like many new and ascending cultures, the Web is marked by arrogance and myopia, and for good reason. [Wired News]
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- AT&T Goes Local by Going Wireless - But no matter how you package it, the phone giant will still have to pay local access charges under its new plan to offer local wireless service. [Wired News]
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- Aussie Netizens Fight Censorship Proposal - The government wants to put ISPs in charge of making sure that material hosted on their servers is wholesome and legal. Opponents say it's a bizarre burden. [Wired News]
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- Australia, IT, and the Queen - Oz debates whether it needs its ancient tie to British monarchy. The info-tech industry's voice - including that of a "multicultural multimedia" candidate for the nation's constitutional convention - is of growing significance. [Wired News]
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- Australian ISPs Battle Copyright Onus - An Australian copyright-holders group, emboldened by a court victory forcing a national telephone company to pay royalties for 'on-hold music,' is demanding that ISPs collect copyright fees for music served online. [Wired News]
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- Austrian ISPs Go Dark to Protest Cop Raid - Providers promise to go offline for two hours Tuesday to register displeasure with a raid that shut down a Vienna ISP. [Wired News]
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- B'Nai Brith Conference Targets Online Hate - Despite pressing concerns about anti-Semites, racists, and other champions of hatred roaming free in cyberspace, many question whether the nature of the Net necessarily defeats attempts to limit such messages. [Wired News]
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- Backlash Prompts Suspension of Basque Site - Outrage over the ETA guerrilla group's assassination of a local politician has overflowed onto the Net with protesters launching spam and mailbomb attacks on the ISP that hosts the group. [Wired News]
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- Banks' Crypto Permit Not as Free as It Looks - The Commerce Department sanctions use of unlimited-length encryption keys, without key escrow, for electronic financial transactions. But the Clinton administration's policy really hasn't loosened much. [Wired News]
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- BBS Operator Loses Double-Jeopardy Appeal - In the latest act of a landmark online pornography case, a federal appeals court rules that simultaneous prosecutions of a California BBS operator did not violate the Constitution's ban on double jeopardy. [Wired News]
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- Better Living through Technology - Software that helps kids understand the Net? A concept that makes blocking software look primitive. [Wired News]
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- Bi-Partisan Group Seeks to Slash Telecom Pork - A quasi-government entity helps telecom companies expand overseas, but some say its just corporate welfare. [Wired News]
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- Bid to Soften Crypto Bill's Penalties - After civil libertarians complain that House encryption legislation creates an ill-defined new criminal category, an amendment seeks to narrow the focus to those who knowingly use cryptography to break the law. [Wired News]
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- Big Brother by the Bay? - An Oakland, California, proposal to set up a network of closed-circuit cameras to keep watch over high-crime areas - and programs like it elsewhere - raise concerns among civil libertarians. [Wired News]
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- Big Software Tax Break in Budget Package - A 5 percent credit on overseas sales was sought as a 'field leveler' by the industry but is eliciting howls of 'corporate welfare' from critics. [Wired News]
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- Bill Aims to Shield Kids from Net Marketers - The bill being introduced into Congress would make it illegal for a marketer to sell information about little Johnny. [Wired News]
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- Bill Would Let Candidates Accept Free Net Accounts - Candidates for federal office would get their email for free, thanks to CompuServe and other providers. [Wired News]
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- Bill Would Put Physicians' Histories Online - California legislation that aims to protect the public by putting doctors' educational, malpractice, and disciplinary records online moves ahead despite being diluted. [Wired News]
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- Bills on Way to Stop IRS File Snooping - After an investigation shows continuing laxness in the Internal Revenue Service's management of taxpayer files, Congress is ready to act. [Wired News]
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- Blazing the Trail to the New Economy - John Doerr and Jim Barksdale, made men in Silicon Valley, kick off a postmodern political-action committee that puts education and litigation reform at the top of its agenda. [Wired News]
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- Blocking Rays and Assigning Domains - A group of firms signing up as domain registrars includes novices like a California sunscreen company. Critics wonder what's going on. [Wired News]
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- Bored with Inaugural? Try Tech Playground - Conceived as a showcase for the bridge to the 21st century, this 'virtual bridge' allows ordinary people to send messages to the president. [Wired News]
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- Boston Common Sense - Jon Katz continues his book tour and finds radio callers in Boston are asking all the right questions. [Wired News]
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- Breaking the Crypto Barrier - As the Senate ties itself to the Clinton administration's crypto-export limits, the rapid unauthorized export of a strong new encryption product suggests how futile the trade limits are. [Wired News]
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- Brief Filed in Child-Porn Law Appeal - Free-speech advocates seek to overturn a law that makes it a crime to publish or transmit images that purport to portray children involved in sexual acts. [Wired News]
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- Britain Wants Tight Rein on Crypto Keys - The British government follows in the footsteps of the United States and France in proposing an encryption policy that would all but force the use of government-licensed trusted third parties. [Wired News]
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- Broadcasters Balk at Murdoch Copyright Bid - Local TV affiliates join cable companies in opposition to the media emperor's effort to create a special copyright exception for satellite TV service. [Wired News]
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- Broadcasters Vow Speed-Up on Digital TV - The TV trade group, in the midst of a battle with the FCC chief over how quickly to begin digital broadcasts, softens its go-slow stance. [Wired News]
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- Broadcasters, Two Words: He's B-a-a-c-k - Newton Minow, who hung the "vast wasteland" tag on the networks, appears to be in line to be the White House point man on public-service rules for digital TV. [Wired News]
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- Broadcasters: Keep Rivals off Policy Panel - The industry has told the White House that it wants to keep potential competitors, like the computer industry, from helping set TV public-service rules. [Wired News]
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- Brouhaha Erupts at Book Signing - Jon Katz visits Princeton with an idyllic image of the Ivy League. What he finds instead is some poisonous people itching to attack the author and each other. [Wired News]
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- Build a Cell Tower, Fund a Spy - One lawmaker has come up with a way to fund the FBI's wiretapping program and to jack schools into the Net: Lease federal lands to phone companies building wireless towers. [Wired News]
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- Building a Beach Where Everyone Can Surf - The World Wide Web Consortium announces an effort to make the Web a disabled-friendly place. [Wired News]
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- Cable's Real Competition Battle Is Within - A struggle between Cablevision, an industry giant, and a Boston start-up trying to start a new class of service, shows how tough the task of creating competition really is. [Wired News]
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- California Bill Aimed at Kid Seduction on Net - Civil and cyberlibertarians are unlikely to oppose it, saying it's probably not unconstitutional, just redundant. [Wired News]
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- California Government Edges into Digital Sunshine - A bill that would require electronic filing of campaign-finance documents for all statewide campaigns wins big in the state Senate. But some worry that the bill will be derailed by partisan battles. [Wired News]
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- California Ponders Tamer Cyberpredation Law - The first wave of legislation on sex and the Internet was typified by overreactions like the CDA. A California bill nearing passage takes a more careful tack, extending penalties for preying on children by phone or mail to electronic media as well. [Wired News]
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- California Takes on Human Cloning - A bill making its way through the Golden State's Legislature would impose a five-year moratorium on attempts to genetically replicate humans. [Wired News]
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- California Weighs In on Crypto - Both houses of the state Legislature cast unanimous votes calling for passage of congressional legislation that would liberalize US encryption-export policy. [Wired News]
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- Campaign-Finance Documents Going Electric - A survey of states shows that although the pace is slow, the idea is spreading. [Wired News]
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- Can Spectrum Sales Save the Kids? - One senator sees ongoing FCC spectrum sales as a way to buy health insurance for poor kids. But meager returns from the most recent auction raise doubts about the plan. [Wired News]
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- Canadian Cops Keep Kashpureff Caged - The AlterNIC domain-name guerrilla was granted bail in a Monday hearing in Toronto, only to have police swear out a new warrant to keep him in jail. [Wired News]
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- Canadian Election Law Prompts Web Site Battle - A Canadian Web developer is threatened with prosecution for putting up an anonymous site touting the Green Party. Privacy advocates say the government is threatening free discourse online. [Wired News]
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- Canadian Media Smarter, More Rational Than US - Jon Katz finds civility north of American soil. [Wired News]
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- Catalonia Trying to Establish 'Virtual State' - With online referendum on independence and drive to secure a unique top-level domain name, the Mediterranean region seeks to establish a measure of independence. [Wired News]
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- Caveat Emptor - Politics, in the marketing era, becomes not so much a matter of ideology as of gullibility - not so much a matter of what we believe in as what we are willing to believe. [Wired News]
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- CDA Author in Bid for FCC Post - Christopher McLean, who drafted the Net decency law the Supreme Court is now considering, is aiming for a seat on the nation's most powerful telecommunications agency. [Wired News]
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- CDA Challengers Take Appeal to High Court - Briefs filed Thursday outline why the Supreme Court should throw out the Communications Decency Act. [Wired News]
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- CDA Fate? The Un-Justices Have Already Ruled - Bill, Antonin, and the rest of the Supremes can take it easy - a law prof and his students have written an opinion on the Net decency law. [Wired News]
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- CDA Struck Down - The US Supreme Court votes 7-2 to uphold a historic appeals ruling that the Communications Decency Act trampled on First Amendment rights. [Wired News]
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- CDA Victors Celebrate with an Eye on Act II - The coalition of civil and Internet liberties groups that beat back the Communications Decency Act say its important that the effort to protect children from online smut focus on education and providing good filtering tools. [Wired News]
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- CDA Victory Rally Cheers Free Speech - Hours after the anti-CDA decision was handed down, activists and supporters gathered to celebrate. [Wired News]
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- CDA: From Conception to Supreme Court - A timeline tracing the history of the Communications Decency Act from the mind of Senator James Exon to the cramped courtroom of the nation's highest court. [Wired News]
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- Censorship Isn't What It Used to Be - Jon Katz begins a series on the new censorship and the censor in all of us. [Wired News]
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- Chemical Weapons Won't Just Vanish - The US Senate's passage of the chemical weapons treaty leaves a big logistical issue: How to pay for getting rid of existing arms stockpiles and keep bad guys from getting hold of nasty stuff. [Wired News]
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- Chilean Press Flouts Drug-Case Censorship - A judge told journalists not to print stories about a big drug scandal. Maybe she hadn't heard about this thing called the Internet. [Wired News]
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- Choosing a Private Path to Policy Goals - Christine Varney believes she can be more effective in developing e-commerce policy in a private law practice than she would be in her post at the Federal Trade Commission. [Wired News]
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- Cities Looking to Exploit Victory over TCI - A federal appeals court said that cable giant Tele-Communications Inc. was out of bounds when it unilaterally lowered franchise fees it owes cities. The cities are getting ready to strike back. [Wired News]
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- Cities, States Decry Net Tax Ban - The people in charge of making things work outside Washington say passing bills to impose an indefinite ban on special Net taxes would interfere with their power and place them in a fiscal bind. [Wired News]
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- Clinton Insider Goes to SF Investment Bank - Tim Newell, widely credited for fostering the mutually rewarding relationship between the Clinton administration and the tech industry, takes a job with Robertson Stephens. [Wired News]
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- Clinton Proposes Hike For Embattled Tech Program - The president wants more money for an incubator program for new technologies. Deficit hawks say it's a waste. [Wired News]
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- Clinton's $5 Billion Plan to Slow Global Warming - In advance of December's world summit on climate change, the president outlines plans to reduce emission of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels. [Wired News]
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- Clinton's 'Next Generation' Push for a Better Net - The reception in Congress to Clinton's push to develop a faster, less crowded Internet may be cool, at best. [Wired News]
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- Clinton's FTC Nominee May Scrutinize Internet - Controversies, like the scuffle over AOL's pricing strategies, will consume the FTC this coming year. [Wired News]
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- Clinton, Gore Want to 'Empower' Parents - The White House will announce a set of proposals, including the wider use and implementation of filtering software and ratings systems, intended to give parents more control over what their kids encounter online. [Wired News]
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- Close Encounter at ABC News HQ - Jon Katz sights Roone Arledge. Life will never be the same. [Wired News]
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- Commerce Department Forming Crypto Panel - A committee made up principally of business officials will advise Commerce Secretary William Daley on matters such as encryption export. [Wired News]
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- Commerce Department Taking Domain Comment - Amid continuing criticism of an international plan to create new domain-name space, the Clinton administration solicits input on the most hotly debated issues. [Wired News]
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- Compaq Exec: Microsoft Twisted Firm's Arm - In a statement to Justice Department lawyers last week, the company's director of software procurement said the software giant issued threats over the use of a browser icon. [Wired News]
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- Computer Donors Get a Tax Break - A provision in new federal tax law gives commercial donors substantial deductions for used machines. [Wired News]
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- Computers-for-Schools Foundation in Trouble - A political snare grabs a private foundation that works with a California program in which prison inmates learn to refurbish computers for the state's schools. [Wired News]
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- Confab Seeks Cure for Journalism's 'Crisis' - Adopting a mellower whine, a gathering of alternative journalists, progressive scholars, and media-makers hopes to dispel the perception of media evil. [Wired News]
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- Congress Does the Net - A quick look at major Net-centric and techno issues the people's representatives will wrestle over this fall. [Wired News]
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- Congress Gets Reality Check on Net Security - Computer security gurus tell the House subcommittee on technology that the government should pump more funds into security issues. [Wired News]
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- Congress Grapples with Global Copyright Pacts - Nine months after they were signed in Geneva, two world treaties that aim to resolve digital age copyright problems finally get hearings in Congress. [Wired News]
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- Congress May Fumble Computer Security Fix - Experts say it's time to address the risks surrounding computer security, but fear Congress may offer a cure worse than the disease. [Wired News]
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- Congress May Legislate Domain Names - A House panel is waiting for a Commerce roadmap before it begins drafting a bill to prevent non-US registration of top-level Net names. [Wired News]
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- Congress Pressed to Put More Data Online - A varied crew of Net activists, good-government types, journalists, and liberal and conservative politicos says the House and Senate are holding out on putting some of their best information on the Net. [Wired News]
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- Congress to TV Execs: New Ratings Now or Else - Congressional heavy-hitters pressure the TV industry to start using labels that specifically indicate the nature of potentially objectionable content. The stumbling block is over labels for shows aimed at the youngest kids. [Wired News]
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- Congressman Offers Bill to Protect Online Privacy - US Representative Bruce Vento, D-Minnesota, wants to prevent ISPs from selling information about their customers without prior permission. [Wired News]
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- Controversial Basque Web Site Resurfaces - Virtually shut down after a deluge of protest spams, a journal that supports Basque independence shows up on an activist server in England. [Wired News]
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- Cool Reception for McCain-Kerrey Crypto Bill - Legislation that to date has had smooth sailing ran into rough waters when virtually no one at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing offered wholehearted support. [Wired News]
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- Cop-Friendly Approach to Handling Medical Data - The Clinton administration proposed a range of new steps to safeguard the privacy of personal medical records. But the suggestions leave law enforcement with nearly unfettered access to such data. [Wired News]
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- Cops Leave 'Blasphemous' Link Alone - British investigators decide not to proceed against a gay/lesbian site that links to a poem including some raw references to Jesus Christ. [Wired News]
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- Cops, Spies Fail to Slow Crypto Bill - In a remarkable attempt to stop what looks like a runaway train, the Clinton administration sent a platoon of national security and law-enforcement heavies to testify against popular House legislation. The bill passed its latest committee test anyway. [Wired News]
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- Corporate Censorship, Part I: Son of Wal-Mart - Jon Katz reviews what his dust-up with the retailing behemoth has taught us. [Wired News]
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- Corporate Censorship, Part II: Chilling Effect - The government is doing relatively little institutionalized censoring these days, Jon Katz says. [Wired News]
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- Corporate Privacy Standards Fail to Please Activists - Consumer online privacy advocates at the Federal Trade Commission's Net privacy hearings are countering an industry-led privacy standard with a healthy dose of skepticism. [Wired News]
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- Costly Flop: California's Deadbeat Database - State officials concede that a six-year, US$82 million effort to create a system to track parents who fail to pay child support probably ought to be taken behind the wood shed - and abandoned. [Wired News]
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- Court Casts Skeptical Eye on Net Decency Law - In a tough hearing on one of the crucial free-speech cases of the century, justices question the sweep of the Communications Decency Act. [Wired News]
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- Court Chases Down Copies of Sealed Document - Making sure all the documents are offline may be easier ruled than done. [Wired News]
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- Court Strikes Down FCC Telco Order - A federal appeals tribunal says the Federal Communications Commission overstepped its authority in trying to set a rate structure for local phone competition. [Wired News]
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- Critical Mass Rolls - on Street and Online - Cyclo-politics is making headlines in San Francisco, where riders, cops, and politicians are waging a battle for the streets. Critical Mass, the leaderless force facing off with the city, has also staked out a little piece of cyberspace to tell its story and do some strategizing. [Wired News]
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- Crypto Case Offers Ammo in Export Fight - A federal district court's ruling that US encryption export policy is unconstitutional could strengthen the cause against a Senate bill that would codify the current export policy. [Wired News]
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- Crypto Confab: Talking Code with No Consensus - A group of encryption experts gets together in New York to discuss whether US national policy has reached a crisis point. Agreement? Your cat has a better shot at breaking 128-bit code. [Wired News]
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- Crypto Liberalization Bill Crippled - The House National Security Committee performs radical surgery on a bill intended to get the federal government out of the business of regulating encryption exports. As amended, the bill now gives the feds a stronger say than ever on what can be sold abroad. [Wired News]
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- Crypto Reform Bill Is Now a Changeling - The House Intelligence Committee reverses provisions in Bob Goodlatte's SAFE that would make strong encryption more readily available and make sure that the US is not subject to a national system of giving cops keys to scrambled data. [Wired News]
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- Culture Crisis Part II: Media Won't Save You - Sex, race, and gender meltdowns flummox the media. Jon Katz looks on. [Wired News]
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- Culture Crisis Part III: Talk Amongst Ourselves - Jon Katz has a few prescriptions for a rational media. [Wired News]
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- Cyber Rights Now: 'Scotty, Beam Down the Lawyers!' - Viacom's move to crack down on Star Trek fan sites illustrates the increasingly uncomfortable mix of intellectual property, creativity, and DIY Web publishing. [Wired News]
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- Cyber Rights: Too Close for Comfort - Congress has become hostile turf for campaigns to relax the US government's encryption export controls. [Wired News]
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- Cyberlaw's Deep Thinker Wins Big - Pamela Samuelson has been there on many of the big software copyright cases, often fighting for the little guy. And now the UC Berkeley prof is getting her due: A $295,000 MacArthur "genius" award. [Wired News]
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- Cyberspace Braces for Bay of PICS - Some members of the post-CDA Congress are considering content-rating systems calls that will let Websurfers view cyberspace through sophisticated filters. [Wired News]
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- Dallas Morning News Makes Media History - When the paper broke its story about Timothy McVeigh's reported jailhouse confession on its Web site, journalism changed. [Wired News]
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- Danes Stampede for Domain Names - When Denmark decided to loosen up its tight Nordic rules on buying Internet domain names, a very familiar chaos visited the orderly kingdom. [Wired News]
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- DBS Wannabe Says It's a Space Homesteader - Telquest Ventures has been trying to convince the FCC to let it start a broadcast service from a Canadian satellite. With more conventional arguments rejected, the company is arguing that it has established homesteading rights in space. [Wired News]
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- Dear Senator: Help! - How worried about the corporatization of media is Jon Katz? Worried enough to write a letter to a politician in Washington. [Wired News]
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- Deaths in the Family? - Jon Katz examines what Heaven's Gate suicides mean to the digital nation. [Wired News]
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- Defending Virtuous Reality - On his book tour in DC, Jon Katz plays the ambassador from Hell, official spokesman and apologist for the dark side. [Wired News]
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- Defying Devolution - If you think Congress is showing signs of dealing rationally with the nascent online economy by proposing the Internet Tax Freedom Act - a two-year moratorium on state and local Internet-commerce taxes - you're about half right. [Wired News]
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- Democracy.net Brings Congress to Your Monitor - The new site will try to fill the chasm between the pols and the people by allowing netizens to fire questions at lawmakers during congressional debate. [Wired News]
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- Democrats Ask Clinton to Shift Crypto Stance - The New Democrat Coalition, whose members' fiscal conservatism and social liberalism would appear to make them the president's pals, ask him to drop his restrictive approach to encryption export. [Wired News]
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- Designed to Annoy, Web Site Flouts CDA - Annoy.com will launch smart, scathing commentary Thursday - and file a lawsuit against Janet Reno. [Wired News]
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- Dialog Breaks Out at Nader Confab - With some of the most aggressive Microsoft antagonists leaving the scene, a substantive discussion erupts about Microsoft's practices and US antitrust law. [Wired News]
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- Did Breaking News Network Break the Law? - Officers of a pager news service are rebutting federal charges that they eavesdropped on New York City police and city officials. [Wired News]
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- Did Gates Really Say 640K is Enough For Anyone? - Jon Katz cites Bill Gates' impassioned denial that he ever said anything as potentially unprofitable as the quote attributed to him. [Wired News]
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- Digerati Cred Doesn't Fly, But He Loves LA - Jon Katz goes to LA and finds no one cares what he does, only who he knows. And who's that billboard diva who so fascinates him? [Wired News]
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- Digital Signature Bill on the Way - With states implementing a wide array of laws on online authentication, a senator promises federal action. [Wired News]
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- Digital TV Will Cramp Some Stations' Style - The FCC releases details of digital channel assignments for broadcasters. Some stations stand to lose substantial market share. [Wired News]
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- Digital-TV Donnybrook Reaches Final Round - After months of posturing, a decision is expected this week on how soon digital broadcasts will begin in the biggest US markets. [Wired News]
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- DNC Put a Price on Time with First Lady - Evidence surfaces that in the pursuit of campaign cash, the Democrats sold face time not only with the president, but with his wife, too. [Wired News]
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- Doing it Right in Denver - Katz sees the McVeigh trial as the criminal justice system at its best. [Wired News]
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- DOJ To Brief Companies on Espionage Act - Foreign high-tech companies could face prosecution under an obscure law. [Wired News]
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- Dole Opens Email List to GOP Allies - Two staffers from Bob Dole's successful '96 presidential campaign Web site are using email addresses gathered from 85,000 supporters as a tool for other Republican candidates. [Wired News]
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- Domain Guerrilla Says He's Sorry - AlterNIC's Eugene Kashpureff, in the midst of trying to settle lawsuit brought after he twice attacked Network Solutions' InterNIC registry, issues a formal apology. [Wired News]
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- Domain Guerrilla to Be Extradited - Eugene Kashpureff has suddenly waived his right of opposition and will leave the Canadian cell he's occupied since Halloween - for one in the United States. [Wired News]
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- Domain Registration in Geneva Assailed - The chairman of a House subcommittee says the United States has too much invested in the Internet to stand by and watch such an important function leave for a foreign country. [Wired News]
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- Domain-Name Proposal Hits Storm - As the International Ad Hoc Committee prepares to launch its new Net address scheme, the Clinton administration and a host of others question the deal. [Wired News]
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- Domain-Plan Chief Sees US, EU Backing - Don Heath, former chairman of the international committee that drafted a new system of top-level domains, says changes in plans will win government support. [Wired News]
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- Drawing the Line on the New Censorship - Jon Katz continues to explore where criticism ends and censorship begins. [Wired News]
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- Drug Czar Under Fire over Pot 'Propaganda' - A California doctor claims Barry McCaffrey's drug policy is a 'flashback to McCarthyism.' [Wired News]
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- Duke Nukem Targeted in Patent Infringement - Strange but patented: An Illinois man says that by incorporating video playback of 'living beings,' the popular shoot-'em-up game infringes on his 1987 patent. [Wired News]
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- Dutch Cops Shut Down Web Pot Club - A perhaps first-of-its-kind service on the Web, mail-order hashish and marijuana, is closed down after Amsterdam police get complaints from foreign authorities. [Wired News]
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- Dutch ISP Refuses 'Net Tap' - XS4ALL, a familiar figure in tussles with authority on Net freedom issues, says it will not comply with a government order to eavesdrop on a customer's online activity. [Wired News]
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- E-Commerce Program for Contractors Blasted - A federal program which allocated $81 million to train defense contractors in electronic commerce has been a waste of money, a Pentagon report says. [Wired News]
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- East Coast Critic Tours Primordial Valley - Jon Katz continues his book tour and finds oblivion - and job offers - in Silicon Valley. [Wired News]
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- EC Report Rejects US Directions on Crypto - The bottom line, the European Commission says, is that citizens and companies should not have to fear the government monitoring secure communications. [Wired News]
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- Editors Huddle in Private over Net Ratings - With several aggressive content-filtering proposals on the fast track, Net news providers gather to discuss a system that would allow them to opt out. But check those press passes at the door. [Wired News]
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- Electric Word: The Don of Digital Signatures - The man who drafted the first digital signature act now works developing software for certified signatures. [Wired News]
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- Email Virus? The Hoax Is on Secrecy Panel - Senator Patrick Moynihan's commission issues a stern warning on the dangers of online viruses, and learns a lesson in the danger of failing to check the veracity of its fears. [Wired News]
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- Encrypted Email For Finns, Swedes, Danes - Secure email for all Nordic citizens. But what if they take their laptops to America? [Wired News]
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- Europe Has Big, Vague Plans to Police Net - Most people attending 'Policing the Internet' in Europe had a common goal. But they split on how to make it happen. [Wired News]
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- Europe Readies Net Content Ratings - Dissatisfied with the cultural blind spots of US-developed rating systems, Britain's Net watchdog group is leading an effort to develop a less Yank-centric model. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Democracy 2.0 - A Dutch new-media guru wants to develop programs that directly tap into citizen's opinions without government officials as middlemen. [Wired News]
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- Eword: ignorance@congress.gov - Congress has been threatening to legislate domain names, basing its decisions on false assumptions. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Not a Penny for Your Thoughts - If you sign an intellectual property agreement with your employer, you may want to think twice before sharing your joie de innovation. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Privacy Protector - The Sight Laser 400 picks up all optical lenses, making it the perfect paparazzi buster. [Wired News]
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- Experts Dubious of MS Loophole Gambit - To integrate Windows 95 and Internet Explorer, Microsoft is trying to barge through a hole in a 1995 federal court order. Observers aren't sure the opening is big enough for the Redmond giant to get through. [Wired News]
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- Faceless Freedom on the Net - A conference on electronic anonymity focused on high principles. One entrepreneur's experience suggests that everyday realities are just as important in providing a needed service. [Wired News]
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- Farewell to .hk? Not So Fast - On the Richter scale of rumors, this one registers about 2.1. But the very notion that China will abolish Hong Kong's top-level domain name raises hackles. [Wired News]
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- FBI Crypto Bill Seeks Instant Data Access - Bureau Director Louis Freeh, in a bid to derail a bill that would liberalize federal policy on encryption, proposes a substitute that would require crypto software to allow instantaneous deciphering of data. [Wired News]
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- FBI Seeks New Comment on Wiretap System - The bureau wants to know whether provisions it has made for getting information from phone companies are unduly expensive or complex. [Wired News]
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- FBI To Open More Cybercrime Units - G-Men will set up shops in Los Angeles in other regions in keeping with an executive order on protecting infrastructure. [Wired News]
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- FCC Amends Spectrum Auction Rules - In the race for spectrum, the FCC promises to streamline the tangled process of selling bandwidth. [Wired News]
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- FCC Approves Digital TV Plan - Under a compromise voluntary schedule 22 network-owned or network-affiliated stations in the 10 largest US markets will begin sending digital signals by the end of 1998. [Wired News]
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- FCC Chairman Hundt Resigns - With 13 months left in his term and the last major decision of the Telecom Act of 1996 in place, he decides to leave to spend time with his family. Also, key events in Hundt's tenure. [Wired News]
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- FCC Chairman Hundt Resigns - With 13 months left in his term and the last major decision of the Telecom Act of 1996 in place, he decides to leave to spend time with his family. Also, key events in Hundt's tenure. [Wired News]
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- FCC Chief's Phone Rules Remarks Spark Anger - Key members of Congress express displeasure with Reed Hundt's assertion that the agency simply can't come up with new universal phone-service rules by a May deadline. [Wired News]
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- FCC Chief: Competition Key to Rural Phone Rates - Hundt tells congressional critics that new universal service rules will bring more providers to the West and other rural areas. [Wired News]
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- FCC Creates Unlicensed Data Radio Service - It's a small step toward tapping a deep reservoir of cheap Net access. But lobbying and legal wrangling could stall progress. [Wired News]
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- FCC Cuts through Emergency Static - There'll be less interference on the airwaves for police, ambulance drivers, and forest rangers under a consolidation plan adopted Thursday. [Wired News]
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- FCC Issues Landmark Phone Rules - The Federal Communications Commission orders a sharp reduction in the $25 billion long-distance companies pay to local phone providers, and cut-rate Net access for schools. Critics say too much was left undone. [Wired News]
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- FCC Moves to Take Online Comment - After a flash flood of email on ISP charges shows the popularity of submitting comments online, the agency embraces a Web comment system. [Wired News]
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- FCC Nominee Gets Earful from Senate Panel - William Kennard is still on track to follow Reed Hundt as the agency's chairman. But members of the Senate Commerce Committee made it clear they think the FCC should be doing more to speed up implementation of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. [Wired News]
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- FCC Phone Rules Off Target, Australian Firm Says - Telstra is trying to force the Federal Communications Commission to scrap an order slashing rates for international calls. The telco argues that the agency must address inequities in how US firms sell Internet capacity to foreign companies. [Wired News]
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- FCC Praises Ameritech Filing, Then Buries It - After complimenting the local phone company's effort to meet the spirit of the Telecom Act, regulators pointed to a few more hurdles it wants Ameritech to cross. [Wired News]
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- FCC Slashes International Phone Rates - In anticipation of the lowering of global barriers to telecom competition next year, the commission tells foreign companies that the amount they can charge will be reduced by as much as 80 percent. [Wired News]
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- FCC Studies Town's Attempt to Regulate Telcos - A 1995 law passed in Troy, Michigan, requires cable and phone companies to get a franchise license to operate there. The companies are screaming excessive regulation. [Wired News]
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- FCC Wants ATT to Pass Savings on to You - Long-distance companies want to keep jacking up phone rates, but the FCC says enough is enough. [Wired News]
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- FCC's Internet Paper: Who Will Make It So? - A new working paper on the Net is filled with talk about the need for regulatory restraint. Will anyone back up the FCC's talk? [Wired News]
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- FCC, Universal Service: Picard Meets Yogi Berra - The Federal Communications Commission continues its marathon effort to put the '96 Telecom Act into practice. Also, a capsule history of telecom reform. [Wired News]
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- Fears, Assurances Orbit Around Cassini Study - NASA takes a new look at the risks of launching a space probe carrying plutonium and concludes they are negligible. But critics see an opening in their fight to change the mission plan. [Wired News]
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- Feathers Fly on Bird Chat - Blocking software catches bird-lover using Latin! Jon Katz has all the shocking details. [Wired News]
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- Federal Anti-Spam Bill on the Way - New legislation will try to attack the problem by amending a law that bans junk faxes. The trick, an aide to the bill's sponsor says, is to avoid criminalizing innocuous behavior. [Wired News]
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- Federal District Judge in Georgia Takes 'Cyber Tour' - A judge gets a tour of the Internet, in a case challenging a state law barring anonymous communication online. [Wired News]
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- Feds Seek Fine, Contempt Order Against Microsoft - In harsh terms, the Justice Department says the company has tried to strong-arm PC-makers as part of its browser war with Netscape. Microsoft says it's doing nothing that a 1995 court agreement doesn't allow. [Wired News]
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- Fight Continues for Crypto Bill - Proponents of the effort to loosen federal government controls on encryption exports and ban the creation of a universal back door to let cops get at scrambled data are in 11th-hour talks to salvage their much-amended legislation. [Wired News]
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- Fight for CIA Disclosure Isn't Over - The Federation of American Scientists won a round with the intelligence agency, getting the spymasters to tell the public how much they spent on their activities last year. But neither the CIA nor the federation is talking like the issue is closed. [Wired News]
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- Filing W-2s Online: Some Are Already Doing It - A pilot project allows companies to eliminate the middleman: paper. [Wired News]
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- Final Farewell to Cult and Hysteria - The fickle media washes its hands of Heaven's Gate. [Wired News]
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- Finding the Middle Media - Jon Katz examines how the Heaven's Gate story united old and new media. [Wired News]
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- Finland Considering Computer Virus Bill - Lawmakers are drafting a bill that would make it illegal to spread viruses - even if done accidentally. [Wired News]
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- Finns Use Summit to Show Off Web Chops - With the whole Net world watching, Finland tries to show that it deserves its rep as the world's most wired nation. [Wired News]
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- Florida Backs Off on 'Ridicule' Charges - The state won't press case against teens who were arrested for allegedly putting up a Web site that said their band teacher was gay. [Wired News]
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- Florida Panel Says No Net Taxes, But for How Long? - Despite recommendations by the task force, Internet access taxes may only be a matter of time. [Wired News]
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- Foes Vow to Take Domain Name Fight to FCC - Alternative domain name providers say the seven proposed top-level names could lead to trademark infringement and other intellectual property problems. [Wired News]
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- Footnoting Web History - A Massachusetts judge decides to release his ruling on a sensational murder case on the Web. The premeditated net publishing is a significant act in web history. [Wired News]
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- For Hong Kong, a Censorship Threat from Within - While the world wonders what China might do to the city's freedoms, those online know that a tendency to anticipate what Beijing wants could lead to pre-emptive muzzling. Plus, tune-in to the sounds of transition. [Wired News]
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- For Social Security Reform, Study Chile - Jose Pinera explains how privatization would give workers a free choice. [Wired News]
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- For Venture Capitalists, Australia Is One Big Outback - Money people say that capital-gains taxes Down Under are a key factor in driving investment and intellectual capital away from what on paper ought to be an information-technology powerhouse. [Wired News]
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- Foulmouthed Heroes - Stern, Imus, Limbaugh, and Flynt: Do we owe them? Jon Katz asks. [Wired News]
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- France Adopts E-Commerce Security Protocol - French banks, driven by a desire to improve on software-based e-commerce security measures, come up with a hardware approach. [Wired News]
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- Free-Lancers Have Just Begun to Fight - After losing an important court decision on electronic copyrights, the lead plaintiff for free-agent scribes suggests that the battle will be rejoined both in the courtroom and in Congress. [Wired News]
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- Free-Speechers Have a Go at NY Net Smut Law - A serious hearing on the state's attempt to protect children from pornography on the Net takes a detour: a discussion on whether a courtroom painting of a judge is "sexy." [Wired News]
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- Freeh's Net-Horror Show and Tell - Trying to beef up the FBI's budget for investigating crimes against children, the director tells again of the dangers his agency has found on the Internet. [Wired News]
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- FTC Gives Web Suckers an Even Break - The trade commission works out a settlement between a group of East Coast entrepreneurs and Web surfers they reconnected to Moldovan phone numbers. Also: Kennard promises active stance, and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Novell) says Microsoft could "annihilate" competitors. [Wired News]
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- FTC Hosts Spam Roast - Although the king of junk email told the Federal Trade Commission that spam doesn't hurt anyone, a wave of negative testimony leads one member of the agency's board to call for prosecuting fraudulent junk email. [Wired News]
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- FTC Pushes for Net Marketing Boundaries - Online marketing practices "could jeopardize personal privacy and facilitate fraud and deception," a new study says. [Wired News]
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- FTC Scans Horizon for Scams - The head of the Federal Trade Commission's Internet committee says that although the agency's online anti-fraud efforts have borne some fruit, new challenges are appearing. [Wired News]
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- FTC Sticks with White House on Net Privacy - The commission tells Congress that it intends to follow Clinton's hands-off doctrine and let industry devise its own information privacy safeguards. Activists appeal to Congress to act. [Wired News]
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- FTC Takes Net Comment on Antitrust Case - The commission, acting after prodding by a host of Net activists, is taking comment via the Web for the first time as it tries to block the merger of Office Depot and Staples. [Wired News]
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- FTC Urged to Take Strong Stand on Privacy - Too much is known by too many people about too many people, privacy advocates warn, and a new set of voluntary guidelines from eight big consumer database companies does nothing to change that. Plus, tracking down deadbeat parents online. [Wired News]
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- Geeks Secretly Run the Media! - Jon Katz digs into the geek underground and finds them everywhere media is being created. [Wired News]
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- Geographic Mixup Could Mean Tax Break For Some - A lifetime of back taxes? Thanks to GPS and some fancy lawyering, it may happen for residents in northern Washington state. [Wired News]
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- German Academic Net Blocks Dutch Site - Responding to a warning from German federal prosecutors, officials at Europe's largest academic network shut off access to XS4All, which hosts the left-wing Radikal magazine. [Wired News]
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- German Hemp Partisans Long to Inhale - Germany lets its citizens wash their clothes with hemp soap and sip hemp beer, but a throng that turned out in Berlin this weekend wants the plant put to more recreational uses. [Wired News]
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- Germany Gets Radikal About Extremists on Web - Are the German government's tactics for barring extremist material on the Internet realistic? [Wired News]
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- Gingrich Retains Speakership - Despite ethical inquiries and opposition from prominent Republicans, Newt Gingrich is re-elected House Speaker. [Wired News]
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- Give Him a V! - With the Supreme Court possibly getting ready to take the letters C, D, and A out of the fight to shield children from online pornographers, President Clinton looks farther down the alphabet for help. [Wired News]
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- Global Pact Rejects US Crypto Policy - The Clinton administration argued to get OECD to adopt a policy that would give cops easy access to encrypted data. The OECD didn't buy it. [Wired News]
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- Global Trend Toward Telecom Competition - More nations are allowing deregulation, but they're still grappling with the question of who should pay what for which service, an OECD report says. ISPs may be the ones to cash in. [Wired News]
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- GOP Senator, Tech Leaders Back Legal Immigrants - The head of the Senate immigration subcommittee opposes restrictions on legal immigration, exposing a rift among Republicans on the issue. [Wired News]
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- Gore, California Tech Pals to Talk Education - The vice president swings through California to meet with his unofficial technology cabinet. The main item on the agenda: tech in the classroom. [Wired News]
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- Got an Idea? They've Still Got the Dough - A $31 million fund accumulated by Network Solutions is intended to support the Net's 'intellectual infrastructure.' There's a catch, though: The agency calling the shots simply can't decide how the money should be handed out. [Wired News]
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- Gov't Brief Says CDA Will Save Free Speech - Todd Lappin says the government's brief in Reno v. ACLU reads with all the passion of a coroner's report. [Wired News]
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- Government Study: Keyboards Don't Cause Health Problems - The findings of a two-day study are unlikely to convince sufferers of chronic repetitive stress injuries. [Wired News]
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- Govs, Mayors Issue New Warning on Net Tax Bill - Moratorium on taxes would hurt economies, violate state sovereignty, they say. [Wired News]
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- Greenspan Plan: Boon for Banks, Bad for E-Commerce - Giving banks an extra day to cash local checks would allow them to slow spending on electronic processing technologies. [Wired News]
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- Group Seeks to Put Lid on Pandora's Cookie Jar - Internet privacy advocates say no one should write data on your hard drive without asking you first. That's why they're launching a campaign to limit the use of cookies on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Harrods Wins Domain Name Ownership Suit - Trademarks are trademarks, even when it comes to domain names, a court rules. [Wired News]
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- Hatch's Dim View of Microsoft's Gag Clause - The Utah Republican says the software-maker's attempts to get clients to inform the company before talking to the government are not legal. Also: The House passes a bill including a provision that could make it harder to sell PCs overseas. ... The ACLU to challenge Bakersfield, California, library Net filtering. [Wired News]
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- Have Geek Will Travel - Jon Katz encounters Liberator, a high schooler who earns 5 bucks a pop blocking blocking software and foiling email bombers. [Wired News]
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- He Tries to Draw Legal Borders in Cyberspace - Jeremiah 'Jay' Nixon, Missouri's attorney general, says he's defending his state's sovereignty by going after online beer sellers and casinos. His targets say he's stumping for office. [Wired News]
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- He Wants to Be a Founding Father - Robert Shearing - MD, lawyer, tech entrepreneur, and Net newbie - braves the turbulent waters of Internet politics to put forward a proposal for a democratic world congress to run the domain-name system. [Wired News]
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- He's Mad as Hell, and Telling the Web - Something about a recent stadium vote seems fishy to San Francisco Net consultant Ken McCarthy. He says the city's media has fallen down on the job, so he's publishing his own 'expos ' online. [Wired News]
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- Hearing After Hearing for Kashpureff - The domain-name activist gets another hearing - and promises of more next month - as he remains jailed in Toronto. His lawyer says he will start a defense fund for the AlterNIC proprietor. [Wired News]
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- Hearing Ponders How to Protect Kids' Privacy - A Federal Trade Commission hearing on children's privacy demonstrated that the marketers and others aren't close to conceding that there's anything about their practices that needs to be regulated. [Wired News]
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- Helms a Threat to Kennard Nomination? - The senator is reportedly making noises about blocking the elevation of William Kennard to head the FCC. This time, the welfare of a North Carolina businessman, rather than ideology, is at the bottom of his opposition. [Wired News]
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- High Tech Keeps Its R&D Tax Break - The technology industry won a continuation of its hefty tax credit for research and development. The cost to the Treasury makes the prize the industry really wants - a permanent tax break - elusive. [Wired News]
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- High-Tech Leaders Counsel Malaysia PM - They're offering guidance on meta-issues - and stand to be in line for mega-sweet inducements from the Malaysian government. [Wired News]
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- HK Domain Names? Stick to Real Estate - HK97 looked like fertile ground for domain speculation. Although one address attracted a five-figure offer, the market has seen little action. [Wired News]
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- Home Drug Test Raises Red Flags - "This is a case of someone who sees an opportunity to make some bucks by selling this stuff to frightened parents," a psychiatrist warns. [Wired News]
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- Hong Kong Tech Looks for Visible Hand - The city's unheralded info-tech industries look for more government involvement in their struggle to contend with well-backed Asian rivals. [Wired News]
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- Hong Kong's Divided Mind - With 20 days to go until Beijing takes over Hong Kong, the air of the city is suffused with equal parts optimism, uncertainty, and resignation. [Wired News]
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- Hong Kong's First Cyberporn Convict - How the gears of justice turned in the case of Cheung Kam-keung, who earned a place last week as a legal footnote in Hong Kong history: the first resident convicted of cyberporn. [Wired News]
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- Hong Kong's Last Angry Woman - Emily Lau has lots to say about the Internet, freedom of expression, and the man hand-picked by the Communist Chinese to run Hong Kong. [Wired News]
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- House Bill Reignites Crypto Fight - A bill reintroduced in Congress prohibits the mandatory key escrow that the Clinton administration has been calling for. [Wired News]
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- House Bill Would Limit Stock Lawsuits - The move by two lawmakers from technocentric districts is designed to reinforce federal law and extend its reach to state courts. [Wired News]
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- House Committee Publications to Go Online - You'll be able to get information at the same time members of Congress and lobbyists get it. [Wired News]
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- House Crypto Bill Gets Majority Backing - Bob Goodlatte's Safety and Freedom Through Encryption Act now has 250 co-sponsors, an apparent guarantee of majority approval in the 435-seat House. But the missing names signal that the legislation still faces some huge challenges. [Wired News]
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- House Panel OKs Crypto Bill - Highly anticipated legislation that would loosen the US position on mandatory key escrow and export policy passes the Judiciary Committee, the furthest yet for any such bill. [Wired News]
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- House Panel Questions FBI's Stance on Tap Law - Three years after it was enacted, a law to modernize police wiretap capability is still far from implementation. One reason, critics say, is the FBI's overreaching approach to digital-age surveillance. [Wired News]
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- House Panel Rejects Crypto Amendment - In the latest of a series of bitter skirmishes, the House Commerce Committee turns down a proposal to give law enforcement and spy agencies instant accesss to Americans' encrypted data. [Wired News]
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- House Panel Seeks Expert Crypto Comment - The Commerce Committee is on a mission to help develop US encryption export policy. Members are canvassing the heads of the FBI and National Security Agency, among others. [Wired News]
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- House Panel Wants Increase in R&D Spending - The House Science Committee takes a generous position on federal funding for basic science projects. [Wired News]
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- House Panels Agree: No New Net Taxes - Two subcommittees give easy passage to a bill that would impose a moratorium on new taxes for Internet-related commerce or services. [Wired News]
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- House Votes on Spending Net Fund - The Clinton administration plan would initially wire federal labs and universities to a network 1,000 times faster than today's Net. [Wired News]
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- How the Telecom Act Came to Be - A capsule history of US telecommunications regulation from 1866, when telegraph companies were forced to carry the Associated Press, to today, with the FCC considering guaranteeing low-cost Net access for schools. [Wired News]
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- Hundt Plays Lonely Digital TV Gambit - FCC Chairman Reed Hundt has long-term fiscal reasons for pushing early broadcast of digital TV. But industry isn't buying into the scenario. [Wired News]
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- Hundt: AT&T-SBC Merger 'Unthinkable' - FCC chief says talked-about telco deal would be blow to competition. [Wired News]
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- Hundt: Don't Blame FCC for Cable Rate Hikes - The Federal Communications Commission chairman says that the costs of programming and building new facilities are the reasons subscribers are paying more for cable television service. [Wired News]
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- IAHC's New Handle? Dangerfield.org - As yet another vocal critic steps up to challenge its plans to roll out seven new generic top-level domains, the biggest question about the work of the now-disbanded International Ad Hoc Committee is whether it will ever get any respect. [Wired News]
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- In Court, Arguing for Net Speech as Commerce - Opponents of New York state's Net decency law adopt a new tack in fighting free-speech curbs. Such laws put unconstitutional shackles on interstate commerce, they say. [Wired News]
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- In Defense of Libertarianism - Libertarianism, as a rule, attracts the most strident criticism from those who understand it the least. Such critics aren't describing libertarianism, but their own fanciful creation. [Wired News]
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- In Harmony's Way - Two months after President Clinton launched his yearlong Initiative on Race with high-minded palaver, the presidential panel designed to lead the discussion seems to be self-destructing. [Wired News]
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- India Opens Up to Private ISPs - The government breaks a monopoly stranglehold on access services to the nation of 1 billion. The hoped-for result is faster service and a boom in Net use. [Wired News]
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- Indian Telecom Watchdog Bites Government - In their first big case, India's new telecom regulators scold the government for a steep price hike levied against cellular phone users. [Wired News]
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- Indian Tribe Launches Online Lottery - But the state of Missouri has already filed suit against the Idaho tribe, which claims that its server rests off US soil since its reservation is "sovereign territory." [Wired News]
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- Industry Rules for Kid Ads Get Cold Response - The advertising industry proposes voluntary guidelines for how marketers should approach kids and gather data on the Web. Critics say more restraint, and perhaps regulation, is called for. [Wired News]
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- Industry: Access Fees Would Hinder Net Growth - A report refutes telephone companies' demands for access charges for local Internet connections, and calls for healthy competition. [Wired News]
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- Info Watchdogs Challenge FBI Wiretap Plan - The Center for Democracy and Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation ask the Federal Communications Commission to mediate plans for a new digital surveillance system. [Wired News]
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- Initiative To Focus on Disabled Web Access - The World Wide Web consortium, disability rights' groups and the Clinton administration have joined in an effort to try to make the Web accessible. [Wired News]
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- Intel Runs into Costa Rica's Past - The largest foreign investment in Costa Rica's history ran into permit requirements and an archaeological find before groundbreaking took place last week. [Wired News]
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- Internet Privacy Bill Could Inhibit ISPs - Simson Garfinkel speculates on the effect of a new Internet privacy bill on ISPs. [Wired News]
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- InterNIC-AlterNIC Dispute Settled - Eugene Kashpureff, the name-space bad boy who goofed with the domain registry, says he's reached a deal in Network Solutions' suit against him. [Wired News]
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- Invasion of the Billionaire Dwarves! - They've engulfed the information business, transforming it from a civic institution into an out-of-control monster that overwhelms, confuses, and fragments us. [Wired News]
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- Invitation to a Beheading - Katz is asked to join world titans talking about information-age power shifts. [Wired News]
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- Ireland Warned About Net Controls - The Global Internet Liberty Campaign files a plea with the government to take a tolerant, non-intrusive approach to any Internet regulations it adopts. History suggests the government's approach will be anything but hands-off. [Wired News]
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- IRS Plans to Outsource Computer Upgrades - The Treasury deputy outlines a plan to streamline the agency - key to which will be government officials overseeing technological improvements. [Wired News]
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- IRS Seeks Ways to Untangle Electronic-Filing Mess - The IRS is years away from having a computer system capable of handling the traffic, but a congressional panel wants to convince more Americans to file their returns electronically. [Wired News]
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- Is Cybersitter Taking a Naughty Peek? - The censorware outfit's main nemesis says the company is snooping over your hard drive before it'll let you download its product. Cybersitter responds with little more than name-calling. [Wired News]
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- Is Washington the Media Heart of Darkness? - Jon Katz continues on his book tour and gets a warmish reception in DC. The horror. [Wired News]
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- ISP Fights Nebraska Regulation of Iphone - Soon the Nebraska Legislature will hear a potentially significant bill which would forbid the state from regulating Internet communication. [Wired News]
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- ISP Protest Sparks Debate in Austria - The nation's ISPs went offline for only two hours on Tuesday, but the brief protest against a police raid has drawn new attention to the issue of Net censorship. [Wired News]
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- ISPs Seek Common Ground with Software Makers - ISPs and software companies agree to disagree - and discuss guidelines on copyright infringement liablility. [Wired News]
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- It's a Small, Multimedia World, After All - Fear of a Disney-fied 'culture corruption' kept video communications out of the sweeping WTO telecom agreement. [Wired News]
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- Japan Wants to 'Wake Up' Unused Patents - The plan is to tap a potentially lucrative but mostly ignored resource: thousands of technology patents that no one has ever tried to use. [Wired News]
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- Japanese Court Rules Against Leading ISP - Amid fears that the Internet could turn into a forum for expressing personal grudges, a Tokyo judge fines a service provider for not killing posts about a subscriber. [Wired News]
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- Japanese Police Seek Splatter-Film Fans - Desperate for a lead in a grisly kidnapping case, Japanese police are asking video stores for names of people who rented violent videos. [Wired News]
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- Johnny Cash Talks the Line on Copyright Law - The Man in Black appears before a House panel to plead the case for enacting new copyright protections to protect artists from digital pirating of their works. [Wired News]
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- Judge Affirms Crypto Free-Speech Ruling - In a follow-up to a case fought in a San Francisco federal courtroom last year, a judge said that the US government's crypto-export policy remains unconstitutional. [Wired News]
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- Judge Defers AlterNIC Action - A federal judge in Virginia said that although it appears that Network Solutions Inc. has suffered harm at the hands of domain guerrilla Eugene Kashpureff, he cannot act on the case until the company presents a more specific injunction request. [Wired News]
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- Justice's Senate Critics Are Silent for Now - A small squad of senators has been sniping at the Justice Department and its antitrust chief, Joel Klein, for an alleged lack of rigor in policing the high-tech and telecommunications industries. [Wired News]
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- Kaczynski's High-Tech Hell - One established fact about the man believed to be the author of the Unabomber Manifesto: He took pains to put himself outside the world of modern technology. Now he's caught in a reality largely dictated by the presence of high-tech. [Wired News]
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- Katz's Communications Decency - In which the Media Ranter DIYs a more realistic CDA. [Wired News]
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- Kennard Tabbed for Top FCC Post - President Clinton is ready to invite FCC general counsel William Kennard to step further into the regulatory lion's den by appointing him to replace departing chairman Reed Hundt. [Wired News]
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- Kerrey Will Try to Block Pro-CODE, SAFE - The Democratic Senator from Nebraska, pointing to law enforcement and national security concerns, says he hopes to win passage of a bill this year. [Wired News]
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- Kerrey's Crypto Bill: Spies Like Us - The Nebraska Democrat's draft bill looks a lot like one put out by the White House nearly two months ago. Privacy activists see a lot of Cold War thinking in the proposal. [Wired News]
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- LA Reconsidering 'Writer's Tax' - After an outcry over the possibility it was launching a regime that would regulate creative expression, the Los Angeles mayor's office asks for more time to study the issue. [Wired News]
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- Latest Digital TV Fight Is Over Antennas - Broadcasters returned to the FCC last week with a petition asking that local officials be required to act fast on approving antennas for planned digital TV service. [Wired News]
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- Law and Order and a Crypto Bill - Despite Justice Department warnings that House encryption legislation will let loose a legion of criminals, SAFE continues to gain momentum. Why? It allows supporters to feel tough on crime and market-friendly. [Wired News]
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- Lawman Goes Online to Fight Spam - A Pennsylvania investigator jumps into the fray, and emerges convinced that the junk email problem demands action, no matter what the pols in Washington do. [Wired News]
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- Let's Make a Deal: The Wal-Mart Compact - Jon Katz wants to make a deal with the Wal-Mart defenders. [Wired News]
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- Lewd Schoolgirl-Ranking Site Yanked - GeoCities disappears a Web page that listed 125 to 150 Palo Alto middle-schoolers and made sexually explicit comments about them. [Wired News]
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- Lexis-Nexis Opens Database to Individuals - By paying a small fee, people can view files the company has compiled on them in its P-TRAK database. [Wired News]
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- Librarians Struggle with Censorware Issue - With many libraries buying blocking software to keep children out of the Net's bad neighborhoods, the American Library Association comes up with a non-software approach. [Wired News]
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- Library Blocks Porn, and May Block Rights - A Florida library says isn't against nudity - it brags of Mapplethorpe in its collection, after all - but wants to keep displays of flesh off its Internet terminals. The ACLU opposes the use of blocking software. [Wired News]
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- Library Net Wars: Solutions to Confusion - Jon Katz has some strategies for smart use of the Net at libraries. [Wired News]
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- Library Tries Critical Porn-Blocking Approach - The library board in Virginia's Loudoun County voted last week to keep pornography off the system's Net terminals. The twist: It's trying to do so by blocking only what would be deemed obscene under Supreme Court precedent. [Wired News]
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- Like Spam Bills or Hate Them? Vote Now - An online poll gives netizens a chance to voice their opinion of two bills in Congress that would attempt to banish the plague of junk email. [Wired News]
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- Listener Howls, Radio Host Bounced - A Cleveland talk-show host is kicked off the air after reading eight minutes of "Howl" at 2 a.m. The station says there is no "safe harbor" for obscenity on its airwaves. [Wired News]
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- Little Pig, I'll Blow Your Site Down - The Nottinghamshire County Council is huffing and puffing at mirror sites in North America to remove a child-abuse report it had suppressed. [Wired News]
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- Little-Known Journal Adds Well-Known Names - IntellectualCapital.com brings Paul Simon, liberal, and Peggy Noonan, conservative, into its "vigorously bipartisan" political Web site. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2433.html
- Lobbying on Eve of Clinton Net Summit - The president and his Number Two man will preside over a three-day session on keeping kids safe online. Today is preview day. [Wired News]
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- Lone Star Battle over Censorware Bill - The Texas House or Representatives passes a bill that would require the state's ISPs to provide free content-blocking software to customers. [Wired News]
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- Lots of People Know What Happened to Lost Jet - The story of the missing Captain Craig David Button and his A-10 jet is a natural for conspiracy theorists. So far, though, surmises on the Net draw skepticism. [Wired News]
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- Lott Clears Way for FCC Vote - The Senate majority leader silences Republican grumbling. Votes on Kennard and other agency nominees are expected soon. Also: New private summits on Net governance are announced. [Wired News]
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- Magazine Covers Reflect the Year Ahead - Jon Katz on Newsweek, Time and big-media celebrity blow jobs. [Wired News]
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- Magaziner: Kids Have Unique Net Privacy Needs - The architect of upcoming White House e-commerce policy says children are vulnerable despite high Net aptitudes. But he offers no specifics on remedies. [Wired News]
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- Magaziner: US Would Back Loose Net Charter - Clinton's Internet czar says a global agreement on Net governance principles would be a good thing - as long as it's not accompanied by an enforcement bureaucracy. [Wired News]
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- Making Imaginary Sex Illegal - A US law quietly passed in 1996 outlaws creating, selling, or even possessing computer-simulated images of smutty kids. Civil libertarians call it a First Amendment travesty. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/5153.html
- Massachusetts May Backtrack on Net Tax - Bay State ISPs seeking exemption from the levy have found allies in the Legislature and the governor's office. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2508.html
- Math Prof Renews Fight to Block Crypto Export Rules - A federal judge in San Francisco appears unswayed from her view that the Clinton administration's encryption export rules are a free-speech issue. [Wired News]
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- McCain Open to Key Recovery Alternative - The Arizona Republican's encryption policy bill would set up a key recovery system for data tranmissions in the United States. He says that now he's willing to listen to other suggestions. [Wired News]
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- McCain Talks Crypto - The Republican senator dropped a bomb on Washington's crypto deliberations this week. In a brief conversation with Wired News, he reveals a certain bent to his concern over encryption. [Wired News]
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- McVeigh Trial Transcripts Want to Be Free - It looked like the only way to get Web access to daily transcripts from the Oklahoma City bombing trial was to buy in. But once again, public information has found free online publishers. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2906.html
- Media and Democracy Congress Upbeat, Unruly - There was booing, there was hissing, and in between, even some touchy-feely about building community online. [Wired News]
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- Media Drink Up This Week's Net Panic - Jon Katz pours criticism on cyberperil studies, and the media which report them. [Wired News]
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- Media Hysteria: An Epidemic of Panic - Jon Katz on recovered memory, chronic fatigue, and Elaine Showalter's Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3625.html
- Media Pro Ensnared in Fight with College Editors - Michael Gartner is used to the rough and tumble of the big-time news game from stints heading NBC News and the Des Moines Register. Editor now of a small-town daily, he finds himself in a spat with the kids running a college rag. [Wired News]
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- Media Watchdog to Protest Mediasauri - FAIR plans to protest the coverage of three major US papers of a story by the San Jose Mercury News outlining a CIA-contra-cocaine link. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2083.html
- Medicare Halts Work on New Computer System - The Department of Health and Human Services halts work on a technology effort that aimed to streamline payments and save $3 billion over the next decade. [Wired News]
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- Members of Congress Seek Cassini Delay - Representatives Ron Dellums and Lynn Woolsey, both representing Northern California districts in which opposition to the plutonium-powered mission to Saturn is strong, ask NASA to take another look at the project. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft to Meet with Nader - Redmond execs apparently want to tell the consumer campaigner why they're giving away their browser and gaining market share. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft: Feds 'May Misunderstand' Decree - The software-maker says the Justice Department may not be fully mindful of some provisions of a court order that government lawyers signed off on in 1994-95. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft: Legal Troubles Won't Cost Us - In a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the software firm gushes confidence that it will suffer no adverse financial impact from the suits it faces. Also: The Senate's ready to take up computer export limits. [Wired News]
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- More Media, Less Killing? - As bad as TV, movies, or the Internet can sometimes be, there is an enormous difference between something that is offensive and something that is dangerous. [Wired News]
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- Morning Radio Marathon Across America - Jon Katz continues his book tour on "Drive-Time" radio and reiterates his rant: media doesn't cause the problems. [Wired News]
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- Motorola Joins Anti-Mine Drive - The electronics giant was "horrified" when a 10-cent chip it made turned up in Chinese-built land mines. Now the firm is a leader in a Human Rights Watch anti-mine campaign. [Wired News]
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- Mrs. and Mr. Roberts' Neighborhood - Cokie and Steven Roberts say the Net threatens democracy. Jon Katz says they are the ones who are threatenning. [Wired News]
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- MS Confab Filled with Worry, Spin, Backbiting - Day One of what consumer activist Ralph Nader billed as a chance to open a dialog on Microsoft's increasing power in the software marketplace degenerates into a worryfest. [Wired News]
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- Mutant Ruling Down Under - An Australian appeals judge, in an apparently inaccurate reading of US case law, ruled recently that words suggesting a crime are themselves criminal. Net activists see the ruling as a chilling precedent and are going all-out to overturn it. [Wired News]
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- Name Truce in the Offing? - The two-day Forum on Internet Domain Names heard lots of talk about the future of Net self-governance and the distribution of decision-making power. Some consensus was reached, though: Much more talk is necessary, and Uncle Sam has a big role to play for now. [Wired News]
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- Nasa.com Back in Orbit - A lot of people looking for the nasa.gov site are irked to find the unrelated nasa.com site instead. NASA responded by shutting down nasa.com. It's not as easy as it looks. [Wired News]
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- NBC Number 1 in Rating Gamesmanship, Too - While others were taking alphabetical castor oil - the 'voluntary' V, S, L, and D television content ratings - the Peacock Network found a perch from which it could tell the government to mind its own business, and keep an eye on the bottom line at the same time. [Wired News]
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- Net 'Paradigm Shift' for Slow-Moving Congress - With the Web helping more and more voters make their ballot choices, Congress is struggling to go interactive. [Wired News]
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- Net Advocates Take the Pulse of Spam - Three groups want to help the FTC make sensible Internet rules with a survey about one of the most annoying features of digital life: junk email. [Wired News]
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- Net as Parasite, Net as Opportunity - The International Telecommunications Union issues a report that says the Internet is fraught with challenges for telecom firms - but that it also represents their biggest opportunity. [Wired News]
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- Net Decency Law Looks Like Dead Meat - In a tough hearing on one of the crucial free-speech cases of the century, some savvy-sounding justices question the sweep of the Communications Decency Act. John Heilemann reports from the high court. [Wired News]
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- Net Group Tries to Make Microsoft Sweat - A grassroots effort is aimed at getting federal antitrust investigators to resume their scrutiny of the company as it extends its reach further into the Net and users' operating systems. [Wired News]
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- Net Groups Blast German CompuServe Crackdown - In a letter to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, 23 groups in the United States and Europe condemn German prosecutors' latest attempt to hold online services responsible for Internet pornography. [Wired News]
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- Net Privateers Squabble with Anti-Spammers - Thanks to a clerical error, a company that wants to find a solution to spam but doesn't understand the Internet steps on EPIC's toes. The advocacy group snaps back. [Wired News]
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- Net Regulation: It's Australian for Censorship - The government down under contemplates regulating the Net and allowing the local phone company to charge businesses for Net access. [Wired News]
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- Net to Cokie: Drop Dead - Democracy.net breaks down the walls separating the people and government. In Electric Word. [Wired News]
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- Net-Regulation Laws Ruled Unconstitutional - New York state's legislation to protect kids from Net smut is overturned as a violation of the Constitution's commerce clause. In Georgia, a federal judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking a law that seeks to make online anonymity illegal. [Wired News]
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- Netizens Spam FCC Over Per-Minute Net Fees - A flood of 100,000 emails in the past week, regarding the per-minute Net-access charges proposed by phone companies, temporarily shut down the FCC's computer system. [Wired News]
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- Netoyens Protest French Shutdown - Told to stop sucking free bandwidth from a national research network, displaced users vent their plight on the Web, Usenet, and mailing lists. [Wired News]
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- Network Solutions Takes AlterNIC to Court - After redirecting surfers from InterNIC to his own alternative domain-name registry, Eugene Kashpureff is in hot water, and a little less chipper than earlier in his protest. [Wired News]
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- Network Solutions Target of Antitrust Probe - The exclusive registry of top-level domain names discloses that it's under scrutiny just as it gets ready to launch an IPO. [Wired News]
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- Network Solutions to Keep Hold on Names, for a While - A Commerce official tells a House panel there simply isn't enough time to get a new domain-name system in place before the government's contract with the exclusive registrar runs out. [Wired News]
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- New Bill Would Bar Net Taxes, FCC Rates - Legislation introduced in the Senate and House aims to head off a growing trend in the United States and abroad to tax Net services. [Wired News]
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- New Bill Would Limit Net Regulation - Internet Protection Act seeks to keep the government from overseeing rates, practices, services, and other workings of the Internet. [Wired News]
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- New Copyright Bill Would Protect ISPs - The question of how to protect intellectual property on the Internet is due to heat up in Congress this fall, and Senator John Ashcroft has produced a proposal he says will accomplish the feat. [Wired News]
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- New Crypto Bill in Senate - A bill introduced by the power trio of Senators John McCain, Bob Kerrey, and Ernest Hollings, hews close to the Clinton administration line on crypto: domestic key recovery, new classes of criminal offenses, continued export controls. [Wired News]
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- New Crypto Board Proposed in Senate Bill - The new Pro-CODE bill would establish an "Information Security Board" to develop export controls on encryption, Wired News has learned. [Wired News]
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- New FCC Boss Speaks Out on Day One - Kennard sounds an interventionist note on several issues facing the commission. Also: The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee sounds off on the eve of antitrust hearings. [Wired News]
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- New FCC Chief Confirmed - William Kennard wins a 99-1 Senate vote, but gets reminders that Congress is unhappy with the agency. [Wired News]
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- New Registry for IP Numbers - The National Science Foundation OKs a proposal from Network Solutions, the private company under government contract to register domain names and numbers, to create a separate number registry. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/4708.html
- New Rules for Independent Contractors? - A provision in the recently passed House tax bill would shield the high-tech industry from the current risk that the IRS will classify contractors as employees. Organized labor is not sold on the concept. [Wired News]
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- New US Trade Rep Is Old Friend to High-Tech - Charlene Barshefsky has won Senate confirmation. Now she faces challenges in e-commerce and negotiating China's entry into world trade. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2421.html
- Newt's Still with Us, but Who's with Him? - Despite vocal opposition from within his own party, the ethically challenged House Speaker holds his job. [Wired News]
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- Next on US E-Commerce Agenda: Convince Europe - Now that President Clinton has made a forceful declaration that the Internet should be a free-trade zone, US officials confront the task of getting Europe to see the White House way as the right way. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/4918.html
- Nigerian Press Still Feels Shock of '95 Bomb - TheNEWS on the Net would have at least given an immediate international context and concern to what's happening in Nigeria. [Wired News]
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- No Meeting of Minds on Pro-CODE - A bill that would dismantle the Clinton administration's restrictions on encryption exports is a cop's nightmare, FBI director Louis Freeh tells a Senate panel. [Wired News]
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- No Mercy on Court TV - Jon Katz enters the cockfight that is Court TV and is savaged - and then saved by Johnnie Cochran. [Wired News]
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- No Such Thing as a Free Computer - People who fix used computers and give them to schools and libraries say a new House bill doesn't do enough to make sure recipients can use the machines. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3544.html
- Notes from (the Jon Katz) Underground - Following a reviewer's attack on his inner sanctum, Jon Katz describes the place media rants are born. [Wired News]
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- Nottingham v. Net: Game, Set, Match to Net - British county officials who tried to block a damning satanic-abuse report admit what taunting netizens said all along: There's no way to unpublish a document in cyberspace. [Wired News]
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- Nuke Storage Bill on Senate Floor - An attempt to force the issue of how to store the United States' 45,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste nears a vote with a presidential veto promised. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3006.html
- NY Court Gets Net Tour in Decency Case - A US district court judge concedes little knowledge of the Net, as testimony in New York's version of the CDA continues for a second day. [Wired News]
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- NY Net Decency Law Goes to Court - The American Library Association and others are trying to halt enforcement of the state's version of the Communications Decency Act. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2935.html
- Ohio Bill Would Limit Libraries' Net Access - Spurred by a reporter's account of seeing kids in a small-town reading room checking out cyberporn, the Ohio Legislature is on the verge of approving a law that will blinker library terminals. [Wired News]
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- Ohio Libraries Keep Censorware Discretion - A parents' campaign to require the state's public libraries to use blocking software on Internet terminals fails to sway a state Senate committee. [Wired News]
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- Online Jobs Abound, but How Long Will It Last? - College kids, beware: The future of working online is flexibility, not HTML. [Wired News]
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- Open Market to Export 128-bit Encryption - This is the first time a company has been granted such export permission, without being required to provide law enforcement with a key recovery option to decipher encrypted files. [Wired News]
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- Opponents Strike Back at Domain-Name Change - Chris Ambler says he already owns .web, so the International Ad Hoc Committee can't sell it as part of a plan to expand the number of domain names. [Wired News]
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- Oppressors, Beware! Net Fights for Rights - Human rights groups show that getting wired can work wonders. Some like Amnesty International are finding new ways to use the Net in protecting human rights. [Wired News]
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- Our Just Awards - Jon Katz suggests we should forget the Pulitzers - new media needs its own awards. [Wired News]
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- Out of the Basement, on to NPR! - Jon Katz begins his book tour and faces talk-show hell when he finds all issues are debated on either the left or the right. [Wired News]
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- OVS: An Alternative to the Cable Guys - 'Open video system' could be a Washingtonian way for telcos to take on your local cable company, says Michael B. Grebb. But don't get excited just yet. [Wired News]
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- Panel Appointment Rankles Broadcasters - Al Gore's choice of Norman Ornstein to a commission that will propose new rules for the TV broadcasters' public-service commitment is unfair, the industry says, because Ornstein is already a committed advocate of requiring free airtime for political candidates. [Wired News]
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- Panel Approves FCC Nominees - William Kennard and three other appointees are a step closer to taking their places running the communications agency. Kennard still faces one wild card - Senator Jesse Helms. [Wired News]
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- Panel Urges Medical Data Protection - If your medical records are on a computerized database, you run the risk of having them seen by people you never dreamed would be perusing your health information. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2404.html
- Parental Guidance Suggested - Jon Katz on the Net Panic of the Week, Part II: Teach your children well. [Wired News]
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- Passage: Anne Wells Branscomb, 68 - The lawyer and visionary swayed networks of people to think about networks of computers. [Wired News]
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- Paula Jones Is not the Real Issue - Jon Katz on why the media can't help us understand our world. Part I of a series. [Wired News]
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- Pentagon's Landmine View Called Overblown - The United States' policy on landmines in Korea is based on the flawed results of computerized Pentagon war games, a report charges. [Wired News]
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- Pete du Pont's Pit Stop - When the politician-turned-publisher idles his PR hot rod at the Wired News HQ, sifting through the exhaust is a wild ride in itself. [Wired News]
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- Phyllis Schlafly, Cyber Warrior - The right-wing crusader has joined civil libertarians to fight the Clinton administration's restrictive encryption policy. [Wired News]
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- PICS Puts on the Red Light - PICS, which would embed multiple ratings schemes into Net-based media, would be a dangerous experiment in the prefragmentation of expression, says Jaron Lanier. [Wired News]
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- Playboy Renews Fight against Telecom Act - Emboldened by the defeat of the Communications Decency Act, the porn publisher asks a federal court to invalidate provisions of the 1996 law that require blocking devices or safe-harbor broadcasting hours for lewd cablecasts. [Wired News]
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- Pockets of Secrecy - Senator Mitch McConnell is invoking disclosure as a panacea, the way some fitness gurus talk about vitamin C. [Wired News]
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- Political Big Spenders Exposed Online - MoJo Wire presents its second annual list of the top 400 political contributors. Many of the rich and famous show up. Larry Flynt does not. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3196.html
- Political Player Isn't Yet a Political Power - Mr. Barksdale goes to Washington, but the CEO's deftness in the halls of power so far hasn't made a big impression. Politics reporter Ashley Craddock looks at Netscape's blend of info-tech and politics. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/6190.html
- PoliticsNow Shuts Down - The online venture of ABC News, The Washington Post, and the National Journal pulls the plug. [Wired News]
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- Poll: Protect Kids from Net Smut - An independent survey finds that most respondents want the government to be more than big brother - and act like a content baby-sitter. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3833.html
- Pore Over the Poop on Clintons' Coffee-Klatch - MoJo Wire rises to the pursuit of public disclosure and raises a little hell with the Bill and Hillary Clinton coffee-klatch database, searchable at your pleasure and leisure. [Wired News]
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- Pretty Good Privacy Not Looking So Great - PGP's new owner supports key recovery - the very issue that crypto company founder Phil Zimmermann has been fighting for years. So where does he go from here? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/8906.html
- Privacy Activists Not Sold on AOL Move - Those working to maintain protections for online users say that the company's new terms of service still contain disturbing provisions. [Wired News]
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- Privacy Implications of Hedy Lamarr's Idea - Net activist David Hughes sought honor for the actress who invented frequency hopping, but he doubts that the full meaning of the technology is appreciated. [Wired News]
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- Privacy Panel Spells Out Policy Agenda - The Digital Privacy and Security Working Group, a coalition of communications and computer-industry officials and privacy advocates, issues a study outlining the policy challenges as wireless and the Net continue to boom. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/4278.html
- Private Eyes, Public Records - The California Voter Foundation is pushing for a law requiring the online posting of political campaign contributions. [Wired News]
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- Procedural Footnote: CDA Buried - The Philadelphia federal court that overturned the law signs the official order. But other courts are expected to rule on permanent injunctions against other Net regulations. [Wired News]
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- Prof Proffers alt.sex Despite Ruling - Undaunted, Bill Loving plans to assign classwork material that relies on the restricted sites. [Wired News]
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- Profile of a Nominee: William Kennard - 'The two lessons I have learned from my parents are the lessons of community and communication,' President Clinton's choice to lead the FCC says. 'And I think I have learned how communications technology can bring communities together.' [Wired News]
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- Putting Felons on Full Display - A victims' rights group calls the planned anti-parole site "cyberdemocracy in full bloom," but the ACLU thinks it'll just get people "whipped into a frenzy." [Wired News]
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- Questions at the Close of the O. J. Saga - Jon Katz on O. J. Simpson and the death of justice. [Wired News]
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- Ramping Up Accessibility - Making mainstream software accessible to the disabled is the right - and profitable - thing to do. [Wired News]
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- Raw Facts Render Meat Packers Queasy - Congress just wants the USDA to serve citizens what they're paying for, but the meat and poultry industry, fearing consumer misunderstandings and predatory competitors, balks at putting plant safety data on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Re-Enlightened and It Feels So Good - Jon Katz looks at what the Digital Revolution and the Enlightenment share. [Wired News]
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- Reaction: Block, Don't Muzzle - To listen to those in Washington tell it, the CDA case's biggest lesson is never write a big statute when you can use software instead. [Wired News]
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- Ready or Not, New Cable Converter Boxes Coming - Deep within the 1996 Telecommunications Act is a provision that decrees the creation of a new consumer market in set-top boxes. Although the aim is to create competition, no one really knows if there will be any demand for the devices. [Wired News]
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- Rebuilding a Broken Society Online - As Bosnia's tenuous peace continues to hold, a group of wired US legal scholars tries to use the Net to help reconstruct the country's shattered legal system. [Wired News]
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- Recording Industry Goes to War Against Web Sites - The Recording Industry Association of America drops its relatively low-key approach to suspected copyright pirates and goes to federal court to get three sites shut down. [Wired News]
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- Reed Hundt at the FCC: Key Dates, Events - A capsule history of the retiring chairman's tenure at the Federal Communications Commission. [Wired News]
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- Reflections in a Smeary Slate - The Web changed Slate more than vice versa, says Jon Katz. [Wired News]
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- Remembering the Great Web Blackout - A year ago, hundreds of netizens turned their Web pages black to protest the Communications Decency Act. Dave Winer puts up a commemorative page. [Wired News]
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- Report Blasts Clinton Crypto Plan - A panel of academic and industrial encryption experts concludes that the White House vision of a global key recovery system is too technically complex and costly to build. Beyond that, it would not adequately protect data. [Wired News]
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- Report Takes Aim at Cyber Patrol's Blacklist - Activists take a hard look at site-blocking software. The results are not friendly to filtering ears. [Wired News]
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- Report: Clinton Backing off Hard-Line Net-Smut Stance - Anticipating the US Supreme Court will overturn the Communications Decency Act, the administration seeks an approach that will depend on blocking devices and industry self-regulation. [Wired News]
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- Report: Tech Can Help Cut Greenhouse Emissions - An Energy Department study says that a switch from coal to natural gas for power plants and the development of more efficient cars and appliances can help freeze emission levels. [Wired News]
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- Republicans Plot a Secret Database - A GOP planning group envisions a limited-access database to exchange ideas with other party leaders. [Wired News]
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- Reversal of Fortune - Clinton administration's possible CDA flip-flop: Typical, says Katz. [Wired News]
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- Rights Groups Denounce UK Crypto Paper - They fear a rush to enact key recovery recommendations before the public and the new government have time to respond. [Wired News]
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- Ritual Abuse Posting Sparks Furor - Three journalists put up the results of an official inquiry into a celebrated English satanic abuse case and bring down the wrath of local officials. [Wired News]
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- Rural Legislators Fight for Low Phone Rates - Members of Congress and state legislators are taking on the FCC over a new proposal they say will mean less service at a higher price for rural residents and businesses. [Wired News]
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- Saddled with Spam - Unsolicited commercial email raises serious questions about privacy, time management, and business practices in the digital age. [Wired News]
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- Sans Drama, Unabom Opener's a Dud - Day One's festivity - the jury selection that focused on potential panelists' opinions on the death penalty - is remarkable for its lack of electricity. [Wired News]
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- Satanist Sues ISP to Silence Usenet Poster - A former US Army lieutenant colonel who says he's something out of Revelation wants to stop an anonymous correspondent from dredging up a 1980s child-molestation case. [Wired News]
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- Satanists' Suit Against ISP Dismissed - A San Francisco couple's attempt to sue a San Diego service provider for refusing to act against an anonymous Usenet poster who allegedly harassed them is thrown out, thanks to the Communications Decency Act. [Wired News]
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- SBC Sues to Overturn Telecom Act Provisions - Baby Bell's lawsuit argues that the law's stringent, targeted tests for allowing long-distance competition make it unconstitutional. [Wired News]
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- Scans: One Man Against the World - Missouri's attorney general has waged a war against illegal Internet activity. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Scarlet Letters from Cyberspace - Neighborhood watches are being taken to a global scale as the victim's rights organization, Take Back New York, plans to launch the a website. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Spinning the FCC - Kevin Werbach joins the agency in an effort to keep one of Washington's most-feared bureaucracies from squelching the Net. [Wired News]
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- School System Has 'Orwellian' Database Plan - Sensitive information - students' behavioral problems, learning disabilities, family income - may be culled for a megadatabase, and that frightens even school board members. [Wired News]
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- Sci-Fi Site Operators Take on Spammers - The plaintiffs argue that people's pseudonymous identities, which they say are as important as their corporeal counterparts, shouldn't be appropriated by spammers. [Wired News]
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- Scouting the Supremes - Todd Lappin gives a thumbnail sketch of the coming CDA Appeal and the Court's jurisprudence. [Wired News]
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- Searching for Humane Execution Machines - Death technology lacks science, experts, and examples. Although society wants the taking of life to be palatable, the state's killing techniques have been left to chance as a result. [Wired News]
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- SEC Tackles Stock Tipster - The federal agency settles a civil suit against the owner of a securities newsletter who failed to let investors know he was paid to promote stocks. [Wired News]
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- Security Experts Bound for Cyberterra Incognita - The Manhattan Cyber Project might be better named Virtual Lewis and Clark as corporate, university, and government officials set out to explore the wilds of private and public network security. [Wired News]
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- Senate Again Tries to Wrest Crypto from Clinton - A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers resurrects Pro-CODE, and says no to Clinton's key recovery policy. [Wired News]
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- Senate Approves FCC Trio - Three panelists to the communications agency are OK'd, and a vote on chairman-designate William Kennard is in the offing. Also: The ACLU to challenge Bakersfield, California, library Net filtering. ... New international meetings on domain names and Internet governance are planned. [Wired News]
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- Senate Bills Challenge Clinton on Crypto - Two bills, including a new version of the Pro-CODE bill, hit the Senate floor. Both try for a compromise between privacy and security concerns. [Wired News]
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- Senate Committee OKs Net Gambling Ban - The Judiciary Committee includes a provision that would override state laws legalizing online betting. [Wired News]
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- Senate Democrats Plan Disaster-Relief All-Nighter - In a stunt they hope will bring Congress closer to helping flood and tornado victims, an angry contingent promises to go online and keep the Senate up all night to get a bill passed. [Wired News]
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- Senate Panel OKs Net No-Tax Bill - To city and state displeasure, legislation would freeze new Internet-specific taxes through 2003. [Wired News]
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- Senate Passes Nuke Waste Bill - But supporters of the proposal to set up a temporary storage facility for high-level nuclear waste fail to attain a veto-proof majority. [Wired News]
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- Senate Questions Commerce Nomination - Bill Daley's lobbying efforts for Deutsche Telekom could get him lobbed out of Cabinet contention. [Wired News]
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- Senate Spam Bill Proposes Filters, Not Bans - Suddenly, fighting spam is a legislative priority in Congress. A bill introduced by Alaska Republican Frank Murkowski takes a different approach than a House proposal. [Wired News]
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- Senate Spat over Lott's FCC Picks - The Senate majority leader announces his choices for two Republican seats on the commission and sends one of the GOP's Net activists into a snit. [Wired News]
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- Senate Votes to Outlaw Bomb-Making Info - An amendment to a defense spending bill would prohibit the distribution of bomb-making instructions in newspapers, zines, books, and on the Net. [Wired News]
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- Senators Embrace Mandatory Data Keys - The Clinton administration and the FBI director are finally winning some ardent adherents in Congress for their view that any software using encryption must have a key recovery feature. [Wired News]
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- Senators Embrace Mandatory Data Keys - The Clinton administration and the FBI director are finally winning some ardent adherents in Congress for their view that any software using encryption must have a key recovery feature. [Wired News]
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- Senators Hear Netscape CEO on Crypto - In a closed-door meeting, Jim Barksdale gives nine senators and congressional staffers his pitch on formulating crypto policy, as all sides lean toward a compromise. [Wired News]
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- Serb Dissidents Brandish Net as Info Weapon - Dissidents relay accounts of the Serbian government's crackdown over the Internet. [Wired News]
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- Seven New Top-Level Domains OK'd - The international panel in charge of signing off on top-level domains approves .firm, .store., .web, .arts, .rec, .info, and .nom. That's just the start of sorting out the name issues, though. [Wired News]
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- Shedding Electronic Light on Campaign Finance - California's Legislature and secretary of state push new efforts to give wider public access to who spends what to elect whom. [Wired News]
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- Silicon Valley Heavies Form Own Lobby - Following up its successful fight against a California initiative that would have opened the way for shareholder lawsuits against tech companies, the industry organizes to press its political interests. [Wired News]
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- Silicon Valley Panel Says 'No' to Filtering - In a replay of library debates all over the country, a Santa Clara County, California, citizens' advisory panel supports continued free access to Internet content on public terminals. [Wired News]
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- Since When Does the FDA Regulate Software? - A House bill would strictly regulate all software used in clinical settings. Needless to say, software manufacturers are not amused. [Wired News]
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- Site Publishes, Pulls Disputed Jury Report - The long-ago-completed work of a Denver grand jury that investigated Colorado's Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility made it onto the Digital Cities Denver site. But then the site's publisher had second thoughts about legal liability. [Wired News]
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- Site Wages Fight for Breast-Cancer Bills - Two congresswomen who have so far been unable to get a hearing for legislation that would require insurance companies to cover a wider range of breast-cancer treatment try to stir some grass-roots support on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Small-Time Spammer Slapped with Suit - Texas Net activists sue a San Diego student in a unique case that targets the false return email address as the principal legal issue. [Wired News]
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- Social Insecurity on the Web - The Social Security Administration is trying to give wage earners easier access to their lifetime pay history. Critics say the access is much too easy. [Wired News]
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- Social Security Ripple: A Privacy CDA? - In the wake of the storm that blew up over potentially insecure data on the Social Security Web site, some fear that Congress will try to bludgeon the privacy issue into submission. [Wired News]
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- Social Security Site Not Out of the Woods Yet - The chairman of the House panel that oversees the agency wants Congress to get a chance to take a look at a revamped account-holder Web site before it goes online. [Wired News]
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- Social Security Site Shut Down - The agency puts its Web information service into retirement after a rash of criticism about privacy breaches. [Wired News]
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- Social Security Unveils New Online Data Plan - Burned by a well-intentioned but insecure effort to put account holders' earnings and benefit data online, the agency comes back with a modest plan that carries a modicum more privacy protection. [Wired News]
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- Software Giant May Attend Nader Confab - Although not thrilled about what it believes might be a two-day bashing session, Microsoft is weighing showing its face in what could indeed be an unfriendly crowd. [Wired News]
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- South Korea Blacks Out GeoCities - Seoul is alarmed by a Web page that celebrates the ideology of its archenemy to the north - the late Kim Il-Sung. [Wired News]
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- Southern Africa Trying to Climb Online - Generally considered the poorest region of the poorest continent, sub-Saharan Africa is getting wired. And although technology is not making poverty go away, it may be planting the seeds of a new order. [Wired News]
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- Spam King Wins Back Net Service - Sanford Wallace gets a federal judge to order his backbone provider to restore his service after taking Cyber Promotions down for an 'outstanding security issue.' [Wired News]
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- Spam-Control Project Loses a Partner - Experian, part of a three-firm consortium setting up a global opt-in system for handling junk email, quits the effort after a blowup over misuse of the name of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. [Wired News]
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- Spamming Lawyer Disbarred - Laurence Canter, notorious for spamming listservs and Usenet to promote his legal practice, loses his license to practice in Tennessee. Those who loathe junk email hope similar deserts are in store for others. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Stories From the Front Line - The Privacy Journal explores shocking real-life accounts of privacy invasion showing the devastation these invasions have on their victims. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Unplugging State Science - In his new book, The Economic Laws of Scientific Research, Terence Kealey argues the benefits of state-subsidized scientific research. [Wired News]
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- Subjective Objectivity - The public wants the media to have a heart, but at the same time not to pick sides or make value judgments. The public wants an unbiased presentation of all the facts, but has no time to read minutiae. [Wired News]
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- Suit Asks US Info Agency to Cough It Up - Several Nader groups are suing to force the United States Information Agency to make government foreign-policy information available to Americans. [Wired News]
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- Sun, Feds Headed for Crypto Showdown? - By setting up a foreign marketing deal for encryption software much stronger than that currently approved by the Commerce Department, Sun Microsystems has challenged the government to a fight over its code-export policy. [Wired News]
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- Surfing the Himalayas? - The Chinese government has developed a code to transcribe Tibetan for use over the Internet. But so far, accessing the Web in Tibetan remains an extreme sport. [Wired News]
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- Survey Hits Web Sites for Weak Privacy Policies - A survey says that about half of the most popular sites collect personal information from users, often without their knowledge. [Wired News]
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- Taking on the 'Culture of Prohibition' - The Drug Reform Coordination Network agrees with The New York Times and the White House about one thing - the Internet plays an important part in the national drug issue. But where others fear the Net as a dope den, DRCNet sees it as an indispensable tool for bringing rationality to the debate. [Wired News]
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- Tax Bill Would Give Software Makers a Break - A bill introduced into the House would give software makers a tax break already enjoyed by most US manufacturers. [Wired News]
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- Tech Equity for Disabled on Horizon - Monday's planned announcement of the Worldwide Access Initiative is intended to spur development of common standards for the Web. Hopefully it will lead to greater accessibility as well. [Wired News]
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- Tech Execs Invade DC - Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Carol Bartz, and a crew of other powerhouse CEOs penetrate the Beltway with advice on how to keep their industry healthy and happy. [Wired News]
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- Tech Joins Ranks of Big Political Spenders - A study by the Center for Responsive Politics finds that the industry increased its contributions to federal candidates by more than 80 percent from 1994 to 1995-96. But tech lobbying is still far behind tobacco and telecom efforts. [Wired News]
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- Technotragedies, Part II: Listening to the Monster - Where Frankenstein, Batman, and The X-Files meet. [Wired News]
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- Teen Offers Way to Crack Blocking Software - A college student posts software to reveal a popular blocking program's list of blocked sites. The company is furious, and one lawyer active in Net cases says it might have grounds to act. [Wired News]
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- Telcos and Techies Bash over Bandwidth - The Progress and Freedom Foundation hauled heavy hitters from technology and telephony into Colorado's high country to talk about how to put more bandwidth in place. World views collided. [Wired News]
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- Telcos Attack FCC's School-Wiring Order - Telecom giant SBC has gone to court to overturn last month's Federal Communications Commission order to set up a $2.25 billion yearly fund for wiring the nation's schools and libraries. GTE has filed a separate suit, and other companies' suits are expected to follow. [Wired News]
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- Telecom Agreement Opens Market to Competition - The US held out signing the agreement until the last minute in a successful attempt to gain more access into Mexico and Japan. [Wired News]
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- Texas 'Secession' Leaves ISP a Dilemma - A quasi-military group has posted a declaration of independence. The network owner fears the FBI may seize his business if he doesn't take the site down. [Wired News]
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- Texas Backing Down in Privacy Fight with ISPs - State Attorney General Dan Morales got eight out of 10 Internet service providers to give him data about suspected members of the militant Republic of Texas. But he is shying away from a battle with two ISPs that resisted. [Wired News]
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- Texas ISPs Face Republic Fallout - Eight Internet service providers are catching flak for going along with a state request for information about subscribers involved in the secessionist Republic of Texas group. [Wired News]
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- Texas ISPs Targeted in Secessionist Case - Members of the secessionist Republic of Texas movement hang out online, not in the Alamo. So state officials have ordered Texas ISPs to turn over everything they know about group members. [Wired News]
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- Texas Secessionists in Standoff - A group whose online activity has drawn the scrutiny of Lone Star lawmen, hits the headlines by taking hostages in a West Texas subdivision. [Wired News]
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- That Reeking Smell? It's Journalism, not Chicken - The Food Lion-ABC News case smells sickeningly familiar to Jon Katz. [Wired News]
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- The Battle for Net Freedom Is Not Over - No matter what the Supreme Court decides after listening to Net censorship arguments, defenders of free speech on the Net already have new battles to fight. [Wired News]
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- The Bombings: 1978-1995 - The Unabomber's bloody campaign spanned 17 years and touched victims from coast to coast. At least one is waiting to hear why. [Wired News]
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- The CDA Plaintiffs - A roster of the lead group in the successful challenge to the Communications Decency Act. [Wired News]
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- The CDA, In Kids' Own Words - Jon Katz posts email musings of some of his younger correspondents. [Wired News]
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- The Clinton-Gore Porn-Filtering 'Toolbox' - The White House's wannabe webmonkeys hold an event to highlight their new push for Internet self-regulation as the path to keeping kids safe from porn and predators. [Wired News]
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- The Clintons, Some Techies, Some Tuna Tartare - The president will be the guest of honor at a $1 million dinner hosted by some of the tech industry's biggest stars. The routine cash-raising aside, the event is all about the new intimacy between futurist Democrats and the industry they see dominating the next century. [Wired News]
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- The Digital TV Giveaway - Broadcasters control the tube. The tube is the life-support system for national officeholders. So is it any surprise that broadcasters won't have to pony up for their new slice of public airwaves? John Heilemann reports. [Wired News]
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- The Evolving Legal Tack in Germany - CompuServe's legal struggle gets the online service mired in the gap between German and Bavarian law. Also, CompuServe's response. [Wired News]
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- The H-Files: G-Men Learn to Hack - The FBI, the US Marshal's Office, and the Secret Service are training their suits how to crack networks and cases alike. [Wired News]
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- The Hottest Net Issue Worldwide: Access - Jon Katz talks Net access with people from around the world and finds the real moral dilemma at the heart of the information revolution. [Wired News]
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- The Kids Are All Right - Really - A study confirms what Jon Katz knew all along. [Wired News]
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- The New Censorship - Jon Katz muses on the price of freedom, eternal vigilance, and Larry Flynt. [Wired News]
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- The Post-CDA Flame War - Instead of celebrating the Supreme Court decision throwing out the Communications Decency Act, some well-known netizens flamed each other. Now that things have cooled down, practical and philosophical questions on how to respond to the decision still loom large. [Wired News]
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- The Redmond Scare - Should lovers of Net freedom fight Microsoft? [Wired News]
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- The Technotragedy, Part III: An Empty Progress - Technotragedies show technology's limits and dangers, says The Netizen's Jon Katz. [Wired News]
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- The Things That Unite Us - Jon Katz offers some observations about post-political thinking. [Wired News]
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- The True North Strong and Spam-Free - Canada has a unique solution to the growing spam epidemic: an arm's-length government body steeped in electronic privacy issues. [Wired News]
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- This is Your Net on Drugs - The New York Times hallucinates over the Net drug "crisis," Jon Katz says. [Wired News]
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- This May Be the Year Congress Gets the Net - Signs of hope spring up on Capitol Hill as wired lawmakers signal Internet legislation. [Wired News]
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- This Mondale Comes in First - Ted Mondale, son of the veteran Land of 10,000 Lakes politico, is making a little bit of history: He's apparently the first candidate to buy paid ads on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Timeline: Into, out of, and in Court Again - Microsoft has spent much of the 1990s under the federal government's legal lens. [Wired News]
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- Timeline: The Act from Cradle to Grave - Tracing the history of the Communications Decency Act from the mind of Senator James Exon to the cramped courtroom of the nation's highest court. [Wired News]
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- Times Makes White House Do Smut Dance - For months, the administration has been headed resolutely toward releasing a policy paper that takes a hands-off approach to regulating Net content. But The New York Times' suggestion that President Clinton is going soft on Net porn prompts White House anxiety. [Wired News]
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- To Be Continued: TV Ratings Far from Settled - Everything from this point on will depend on which side lobbies the loudest and the best, Michael Grebb says. [Wired News]
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- To Be Young, Cyber, and Free - Peacefire.org lets kids rally for their rights online. Jon Katz observes. [Wired News]
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- To Jack Shafer, with Gratitude - Satisfied with his book tour, Jon Katz writes a thank-you note to his most vocal online critic. [Wired News]
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- Tracking Down Deadbeats Online - A woman in the business of looking for parents who have failed to provide child support says commercial look-up services make her hunts relatively simple and fast. [Wired News]
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- Trade Group Offers Direct-Marketing Rules - The Direct Marketing Association, which includes junk mailers, spammers, and phone-solicitation houses, gets a go-ahead from the Federal Trade Commission to try self-regulation. Observers say the attempt is too little, too late. [Wired News]
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- Trial and Error - Lately, the so-called Nanny Trial reminds us what the O. J. Simpson trial proved once and for all: Modern media have become an overwhelming force in our criminal justice system. [Wired News]
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- TV Copyright Hearings: 'Let Market Rule' - The US Copyright Office holds hearings on the future of the rules that will govern satellite, cable, and broadcast TV. Lots is at stake for everyone involved. [Wired News]
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- TV Forecast: Static, Some Digital Clearing - Two cable announcements last week show that the TV industry is moving toward a rollout of high-definition programming in the next couple of years. But it's still impossible to tell what digital choices consumers will have. [Wired News]
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- TV Industry Agrees to Content Ratings - After a long skirmish with parents and politicians, those who make and broadcast TV shows agree to use a system that includes specific labels for sex, violence, profanity, and suggestive content. [Wired News]
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- TV Rating Game Could Channel a Compromise - No one likes the new system, and a family-values Congress is scheming up new ways to keep kids from watching Melrose Place. [Wired News]
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- UK Activist: Let 1,000 Mirror Sites Bloom - The head of Britain's foremost cyber-liberties group calls for netizens worldwide to post copies of a Web-published report that local authorities are trying to quash. [Wired News]
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- UK Net Watchdog Wants to Rate Content - The Internet Watch Foundation, which set up a smut hotline last year, is now designing a ratings system for Web sites and Usenet groups. [Wired News]
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- UN Agency Drafts Charter on Human Genome - UNESCO comes up with a document that seeks to extend the principles of universal human rights to our DNA. [Wired News]
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- Unabom Defendant: Mad, or Just Bad? - As trial gets set to open, the drama will revolve around just what kind of person Theodore Kaczynski is. [Wired News]
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- Uncle Sam vs. Mr. Bill? - The coming confrontation between the US Justice Department and Microsoft Corporation demonstrates that government does, in fact, have a role to play in the Digital Revolution. [Wired News]
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- US Firms with Special Crypto OKs - A list of a half-dozen firms that have announced special permission to export cryptography products stronger than that allowed by government regulations. [Wired News]
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- US Patent Law Can't Cope with Human Clones - If you can patent human cells, which you can under US law, then you could patent human organs. Somewhere after that the 13th Amendment kicks in. [Wired News]
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- US Scientists Probe Australian Desert Mystery - US scientists conclude that a ground-shaking flash of light witnessed in the Australian outback four years ago was caused by a big, dumb extraterrestrial: a large meteorite. But where's the proof of impact? [Wired News]
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- US Seeks Alternative Domain-Name Plan - Dissatisfied with a new international pact, the White House impanels its own working group to amend the system, Wired News has learned. [Wired News]
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- US Seeks Fine, Contempt Order against Microsoft - In harsh terms, the Justice Department condemns the software giant for requiring PC makers to include Internet Explorer on their machines [Wired News]
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- US Seeks to Stay Court's Crypto Order - The Clinton administration, faced with a ruling that could undermine its encryption-export policy, appeals to the judge. [Wired News]
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- US, Mexico Cut through Pager Static - A treaty four years in the making coordinates paging-service frequencies along the border. [Wired News]
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- V-Chip Redux? - According to Jon Katz, the technology that the president loves has always been both a fraud and a joke. [Wired News]
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- V-One Granted Crypto Export sans Key Escrow - In a bow to emerging market realities, the Commerce Department approves the export of an encryption product that keeps the keys to coded data in the owner's hands. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3185.html
- Valenti Moves From PG to IP - He made his mark on American culture with the movie ratings system, and now he's horning in on intellectual-property rights protection. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2179.html
- Vietnam Net Crackdown Hints at Telecom Struggle - New rules that ban most people from gaining Net access or owning satellite dishes are seen as part political, part long-term play for control of the nation's telecom industry. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2716.html
- Vietnam to Police Intellectual Pirates - Hanoi, seeking to win trust of potential foreign investors and clear obstacles to developing high-tech industries, agrees to move against intellectual-property bandits. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3217.html
- Virginia County Restricts Net Access in Libraries - All computers will be equipped with blocking software, with no provision to turn it off for adults. Patrons under 18 must have a note from their mom or dad to access the Net. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/7882.html
- Virginia: Professors Don't Really Need Net - The state says a law that bans state employees from viewing potentially indecent online material doesn't violate academic freedom, claiming the Net is useful, but not necessary, for research. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/4367.html
- Virginians Fight Library Nannyware - The imposition of restrictive software on Net terminals "puts adults on the same level as children," says a member of a citizens group that filed a freedom-of-speech suit in federal court. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9350.html
- Virginians Weigh Library Net-Blocking Suit - The constitutionality of Loudoun County's new library Net access rules requiring blocking for all patrons and parental permission for people under 18 is questioned by a citizens group. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/7967.html
- Visionless in Seattle - The Gates Summit was a triumph not of technology, but of public relations. Its real message - unintended - was one of irony. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3827.html
- Vox PopAOLi - Democrats in Congress feuded with Republicans last week over money to help disaster victims. They hit on the idea of what they no doubt believed was a brave experiment in new politics: They spent all night in an AOL chat room. Well, it was brave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/4498.html
- Wave of Support for Defiant Texas ISP - A 100-customer West Texas service provider gets worldwide attention and backing for fighting state officials' attempt to get information on a notorious group of subscribers. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3595.html
- Web Anglais? Non, S'il Vous Plait - A Canadian Web site owner runs up against a Quebec language law that requires that content in all media be available in French as well as English. Beyond the inconvenience for one site, the case raises questions about trying to enforce linguistic purity in an age of globalization. [Wired News]
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- Web Piracy Dispute Turns on Free Content - One issue in a suit by a legal database publisher against a rival is plain theft. Underlying that is a struggle over how to make content available free of charge. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3234.html
- Web Pyramid Investors to Get Payment - A company will pay up to US$5 million under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2245.html
- Web Sites Foil Canada's Election Poll Ban - In the first national test of a federal law prohibiting publication of opinion polls just before elections, Canada's election board discovers an unpluggable leak in cyberspace. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/4221.html
- Web Watchers Track, Trip Up Parolees - A New York anti-crime group's Web site reports the parole status of violent prisoners - but civil liberties groups say the data lacks depth. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/8838.html
- What Constitutes a Technotragedy? - Technotragedies are caused by events that are not immediately clear or comprehensible, involving technology with often unknown capabilities. They tap into our propensity toward paranoia and fuel our lust for conspiracy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3773.html
- What's a Revolution When No One's Listening? - It was more than just 'something to do with white guys and cable stations.' But you wouldn't have known it by the non-reaction reaction alternative journalists and progressive thinkers elicited in their anti-corporate media march. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/7777.html
- When Information Doesn't Know Its Place - Public-interest advocates are awaiting a court appeal in their fight to get the US Information Agency to make public a "secret" URL. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2989.html
- When Information's Free, Theft's Easy, Costly - Grabbing someone else's content is one of the easiest scams on the Net. Big companies with deep pockets can defend themselves against pirates, but little guys are often out of luck. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3596.html
- Where Do They Go When They Quit the Dole? - President Clinton and aides celebrated a big drop in the national welfare caseload. For now, though, no one can say what's become of the former recipients. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/6002.html
- White House Releases Paper on Info Privacy - The Office of Management and Budget study ignores encryption and hews to the view of the Net as a den of menace. But a critic concedes the study gives a thorough overview of current legal and regulatory chaos. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3471.html
- White House Reviewing Sun Crypto Deal - The administration says it wants to make sure Sun Microsystems, which intends to market strong Russian-developed software, is complying with export controls on encryption products. Meanwhile, Sybase says it has won a crypto export waiver. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/4047.html
- White House Unveils E-Commerce Policy - After 15 months of study, the administration puts out its vision of what government needs to do to ensure the robust development of the worldwide electronic marketplace. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/4885.html
- White House Will Propose Own Crypto Bill - Facing a series of liberal encryption proposals in Congress, the Clinton administration decides to write its own legislation. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2688.html
- White House Wins Crypto Vote - A new bill that writes into law much of the Clinton administration's oft-criticized encryption policy passes a key committee test. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/4554.html
- White House Wrangling over Crypto - In one corner, Louis Freeh, who appears to be carrying the ball for an aggressive new Clinton administration effort to clamp down on encryption. In the not-exactly-opposite corner, William Reinsch, who argues that crackdown proposals go too far. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/6849.html
- Who Needs Crypto? Paging Bill Clinton ... - The Clinton administration, in the midst of a fight to limit the availability of strong encryption, has come face-to-face with an embarrassing example of what can happen when its own communications go unprotected. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/7065.html
- Who Says Air Force Jet Is 'Lost?' - A pilot familiar with the terrain in which an Air Force attack jet vanished earlier this month takes a sober look at the circumstances. Plus, NORAD on alert. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3230.html
- Who's Solving Spam Problem? Not Nevada - Lawmakers are now trying to stamp out spam. Results are minimal. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/1708.html
- Will Roulette Wheel Land on 'Ban' or 'Tax'? - That age-old quandary has resurfaced, this time in connection with that combination of vice and multimedia: Internet gambling. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/8479.html
- Will Wiring Wards Help Hospitalized Kids? - President Clinton calls for Net access for children's hospitals, but what the future holds for many sick kids is telemedicine. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/1910.html
- Without Incentive, It's Just Hot Air - Getting people to embrace alternative energy sources and devices is the biggest challenge in the effort to slow global warming, a conference of scientists and policy-makers says. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/7480.html
- Word's Out: Time to Change Domain-Name System - The hundreds of comments submitted to the Commerce Department are sometimes boringly practical and sometimes wacky, but the consensus from netizens and Net commerce is that the system must change. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/6297.html
- World Telecom Deal Awaits Last-Hour Action - While Canada, Mexico, and Japan fear market domination by the United States and Europe, US negotiators believe the US is giving away as much as it is getting. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2061.html
- Would You Buy a Computer from This Industry? - Jon Katz goes under cover and finds the computer industry's Achilles' heel. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/1611.html
- Writers Sue LA over Tax Ordinance - Hollywood's main writer's union goes to court to stop enforcement of a law it says forces unconstitutional regulation of writers - and opens the door to a train of other abuses. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/6708.html
- You're Not the Boss of Me! - The Net's neolibertarianism is just self-serving, immature hypocrisy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/5333.html
- You've Got Mail - from the Judge - Tradition-bound Western courts recognize a changing world and begin issuing orders over the Internet. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3948.html
- Zapatista Backers Rally Forces via Net - A mobilization effort on the Internet culminates in demonstrations at 29 Mexican consulates across the United States. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/1823.html
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