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- A Vicious Beating, and Comforting Words - To be silenced as the result of one's opinions is transforming. In Jon Katz's case, it was unprecedented. [Wired News]
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- APEC: Long-Term Gain, Short-Term Nothing - Economists say US tech companies may have to wait years before reaping rewards from lower tariffs. [Wired News]
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- ASEAN Tries to Woo US Capital with New Patent Agency - But skeptics say enforcement won't mean a thing if it ain't got that sting. [Wired News]
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- Banned on Radio, Belgrade Dissidents Take to Net - The government shut down the Serbian capital's only independent radio station, but it continues to broadcast using RealAudio. [Wired News]
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- Britain Launches Net Smut Hotline - Britain enlists its citizens to help clean up the Internet by reporting sites with potentially illegal content to a hotline. [Wired News]
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- Bureaucrats Making Net Policy May Not Understand the Medium - Lack of experience among decision makers could lead to problematic laws requiring frequent renegotiation. [Wired News]
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- Cable Follies: Why Rates Keep Climbing Despite Deregulation - The telecom act was supposed to deregulate the cable industry and lower prices for consumers in the name of healthy competition. Here's why it hasn't happened. [Wired News]
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- California Watchdog Group to Track Lawmakers Online - The California Voter Foundation Web site will oversee legislative process [Wired News]
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- Can New Media Rise from Old Media's Ethical Ashes? - As surveys show a decline in public trust in American journalism, Jon Katz finds a need for a code of ethics. [Wired News]
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- Can't We All Just Govern Together? - Underwritten by 22 corporate sponsors, the Internet Law and Policy Forum is a global, nongovernmental organization engaging worldwide stakeholders. [Wired News]
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- CFC Accord May Avert Skin Cancer Epidemic - An international accord to phase out ozone-damaging industrial chemicals will likely save many people from skin cancer, Dutch researchers say. [Wired News]
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- Chile con Controversy - Clinton needs to extend NAFTA, Gore gets squeezed between labor and trade. [Wired News]
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- Clinton Must Not Shirk China - As Clinton travels in the East, John Heilemann wonders whether he will deal with the largest challenge in Asia. [Wired News]
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- Clinton's Best-kept Secret: His Trade Accomplishments - Clinton's record on trade could prove historic; it depends on how he handles APEC. [Wired News]
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- Clinton's Crypto Move May Impede Current Suits - New rules could impact progress of export control cases now under way. [Wired News]
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- Companies to Pay Higher Toll for 800 Calls - The FCC move has pleased local telephone companies, but is drawing the ire of companies that pay for toll-free numbers. [Wired News]
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- Congress and FCC To Get Down-and-Dirty in 105th - Some Congress members have the FCC in their cross hairs, but the commission won't sit still. [Wired News]
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- Constitutional Review of Crypto Rules Sought - University professor Dan Bernstein's lawyers maintain that some aspects of the new Commerce Department regulations already have been struck down by a federal judge. [Wired News]
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- Court Cracks Open Crypto Policy - A federal judge says encryption source code is protected by the First Amendment - but her ruling applies only in Northern California. Will other courts be considering the view? [Wired News]
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- Cybersitter Goes after Teen - Solid Oak Software claims the head of an anti-censorship group illegally obtained a list of sites that Cybersitter blocks. [Wired News]
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- Disabilities Lobby Wins Its Fight - How the disabilities lobby mastered the Telecom Bill. [Wired News]
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- Dr. Newt's Legal Advice: Automate - Gingrich's vision of the digital age includes automating the legal and medical professions in the same way gas stations were made self-serve in the 1970s. [Wired News]
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- Drudge Washington: Newt's New Best Friend Is Bill - Congressional Democrats may be publicly calling on Newt Gingrich to resign as Speaker of the House, but higher up and behind the scenes, a different scenario plays out. [Wired News]
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- Educator Warns of Copyright Plan's Reach - The National Education Association says a provision in the treaty would limit schools' access to the Net. [Wired News]
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- EPA and Intel Rile Environmentalists - More than 100 organizations have signed a letter in protest of new environmental leniency benefiting Intel. [Wired News]
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- Exhuming Mencken; Politicians In Search of Moral Direction - Jon Katz bemoans the undermining of freedom in the name of morality - an old streak in American politics, and the fastest growing political movement of our time. [Wired News]
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- FCC Chair Wants Universal Net Access - and He's Serious - Hundt's law - Access plus bandwidth equals communications revolution [Wired News]
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- FCC Gives Nod to HDTV Standard - But companies in the private sector are still at odds over how to push ahead with the technology. [Wired News]
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- FCC Kills Affirmative Action for IVDS Auctions - The FCC says it's concerned about lawsuits. Critics say the agency knuckled under too fast. [Wired News]
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- FCC Won't Play Traffic Cop to ISPs - In the end, it may not be a matter of whether you pay for the bells and whistles of cyberspace, but where you pay for them. [Wired News]
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- Feds Fight Off Fake Bugs - An Energy Department agency is using its web page to warn against proliferating virus hoaxes. [Wired News]
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- Finnish Broadcaster Monitors Journalists' Net Use - Spying on employee Internet use calls into question journalists' rights to privacy and access to the Net for research and reporting. [Wired News]
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- GAO Questions Trade Deal with China - A small export deal has triggered a big stink that may have implications for US high-tech companies. [Wired News]
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- Germany Restricts Internet Content - A new law places responsibility on the loosely defined 'suppliers' of porn and Nazi propaganda - though details on regulation and penalties are unclear. [Wired News]
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- Give Wal-Mart a Chance? Katz's Readers Fire Back - Responses to Wal-Mart column have Jon Katz ranting, but is he convincing anyone? [Wired News]
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- Global Net Group Proposes More Domains - The plan includes seven new top-level domains and as many as 30 new companies to register domain names. [Wired News]
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- Government Intervention Sought in 'Millennium Bug' - Could it seriously harm military weapons? Critics are calling for a presidential declaration of emergency. [Wired News]
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- Great Movie Indicts Mainstream Journalism - Jon Katz ponders the media's steady absorption into America's ravenous hype machine, and looks at how Hype! makes it all too clear. [Wired News]
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- Hack and Ye Shall Learn - The Happy Hacker seeks to give kids the tools to hack for fun and profit. [Wired News]
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- High Court Asked to Combine CDA Cases - The editor of an online magazine wants the Supreme Court to combine his suit with other CDA challenges. [Wired News]
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- High Court Begins Discussing CDA Case - But the court hasn't put the case on its agenda for the coming week. [Wired News]
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- India Restricts High-Frequency Satellite Broadcasts - A ban on direct-to-home satellite broadcasts may be aimed at attempts by News Corp. and other foreign companies to broadcast in India. [Wired News]
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- India's High Court Pulls Plug on Wiretapping - India's Supreme Court says wiretapping is a "serious invasion of an individual's privacy." [Wired News]
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- Info-Tech Group to Give Governments Net-Tax Lesson - The Information Technology Association of America wants to make sure state and local leaders get it. [Wired News]
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- ISPs Battle SPA's Lawsuit Threats - The Software Publishers Association wants ISPs to shut off subscribers accused of software piracy. But that could open ISPs up to lawsuits from users. [Wired News]
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- Journalists Shouldn't Take Money for TV Spots, Speeches - Jon Katz believes celebrity is antithetical to journalism. [Wired News]
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- Judge Deals States Upper Hand in Online Gambling - "This could have a chilling effect on a lot more than online gambling," an EFF attorney says. [Wired News]
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- Malaysian PM has Great IT Expectations - Spencer Reiss on a Southeast Asian cross between Silicon Valley and Multimedia Gulch [Wired News]
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- Medical Ganja-to-Go Site Comes Down - A Web site touting home-delivery of pot to the ill has drawn federal ire. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Lacks Philosophy, but May Inherit the Earth - Some are comparing Microsoft's reach to that of the Roman Empire. [Wired News]
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- Migrating Votes - Republicans not only squandered the Latino vote, but sparked an immigrant backlash that yielded huge benefits for Bill Clinton. [Wired News]
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- Mitnick Lands in Solitary - Locked up on charges of software theft, Mitnick has now been put into solitary, apparently for hoarding food, his lawyer said. [Wired News]
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- More Voters Read About Politics Online - But Is it Useful? - More Americans are reading politics news on the Internet, according to a new study. But, even in an election year, most would rather read entertainment or health news on the Net. [Wired News]
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- Native American Netizens Gather and Organize Online - Sites like NativeWeb provide a cyber-place for Earth's indigenous people. [Wired News]
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- Net Access For All Requires More Than a Set-Top Box - Jon Katz believes real solutions are needed to move Net access beyond the realm of a small, powerful elite. [Wired News]
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- Net Presence Widens as Serbia Shuts Down Media - The Internet is becoming the only means for the media in Serbia to circumvent government censorship, though few inside the country have Net access. [Wired News]
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- Netizen Columnist Bids Farewell to the Year of the Net - John Heilemann muses on online journalism and the Deep Implications of the first wired campaign. [Wired News]
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- New Encryption Export Controls Due - The changes will switch jurisdiction over encryption from the State Department to the Commerce Department. [Wired News]
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- Now Needed: Party of Liberty - Jon Katz believes we need a new party to fight bogus moralism. [Wired News]
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- On the Freedom Tour: Part II - An unexpectedly intense reaction to criticism of Wal-Mart got a lot of people with radically different points of view talking. [Wired News]
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- Parolees' Internet Access Restricted, But Will it Work? - But even a Department of Justice spokesman says the tight new restrictions imposed on "high-risk" parolees will be difficult to enforce. [Wired News]
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- Poverty, not TV, is the Real Kid-Killer - Jon Katz feels the idea that properly raised children would turn murderous or immoral through exposure to television, music, or films would be a dumb joke, if it weren't a central idea of both major political parties. [Wired News]
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- Putting Digital TV Pact into Focus - A behind-the-scenes tale featuring a flu bug that forced a compromise between computer and TV lobbyists. [Wired News]
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- Read My Modem: No New Taxes? - The Treasury Department opposes taxing cyberspace transactions. [Wired News]
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- Reporters Aren't Cops - Jon Katz believes it's an arrogant and unilateral expansion of the journalistic mandate for reporters to play a law-enforcement role. [Wired News]
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- Scapegoating Children Won't Solve Grown-Up Problems - A new book by Mike Males examines America's war on adolescents [Wired News]
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- South Dakota Censorship? Not Really - Native American activists are crying censorship, but others say they're crying wolf. [Wired News]
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- Study: Majority of Large US Firms Hacked - A government study shows that nearly 60 percent of large US companies' computer systems have been hacked. But partisan shifts may prevent action. [Wired News]
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- Supreme Court May Decide CDA Fate This Week - The high court plans to discuss two cases regarding free speech and press on the Internet in sessions Friday, and possibly combine the two. [Wired News]
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- Supreme Court Will Hear CDA Case - The US Supreme Court will hear the landmark case, which could affect how the Internet is regulated. [Wired News]
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- Surf While You Can: The End of Unlimited Net Access at Work - Surfing sites of personal interest at work is going the way of 976 numbers. [Wired News]
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- Tech Giants Unveil Crypto Framework - But many wonder how seriously it addresses the basic issue of privacy. [Wired News]
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- Tech Talks Loom as US Trade Deficit with China Balloons - The US trade deficit widens as President Clinton prepares to sit down with China over computer trade issues. [Wired News]
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- The French Say Non to English-Language Web Site - Two nonprofits dedicated to the preservation of the French language in France are suing an American university with a campus in Lorraine over its English-language Web site. [Wired News]
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- The Next Generation GOP Rallies to Action - Though struggling to reinvent itself, the Republican Party at least has rising stars to watch. [Wired News]
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- The Thai Cost of Business: Net Access Isn't Cheap - The Bangkok Post recently found out (the hard way) that reasonably priced Net access is still a foreign concept to most folks around the world. [Wired News]
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- TV Broadcasters Positioned to Become ISPs - Michael B. Grebb looks down the slippery slope of allowing broadcasters to send data through television. [Wired News]
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- US Copyright Proposals Tread on Rights? - Proposals to be submitted to the World Intellectual Property Organization aim to protect copyrights, but may affect the democratic flow of information. [Wired News]
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- Wal-Mart Sanitizes Art, Soils First Amendment - Firms like Wal-Mart pose a bigger threat to free speech than the CDA. [Wired News]
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- Washington State Calls AOL on Flat-Rate Plan - When AOL changes its rates, it's got to tell its customers, the Washington attorney general says - and the state will force the company to do just that. [Wired News]
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- Watchdog Snaps at Major Media for CIA-Crack Coverage - FAIR takes The New York Times, Washington Post, and LA Times to task for their reports on the San Jose Mercury News' drug series. [Wired News]
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- Web Smut Standards? Age Verification May Be the Answer - Bianca talks about smut (and age verification): Webmistresses and masters have to be careful about who sees their adult content. [Wired News]
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- What the 105th Congress May Mean for the Net - The hot issues: Tweaking the Telecom Act, copyrights, encryption, Internet messages and avoiding an embarrassment like CDA. [Wired News]
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- When Will Old Media Grasp the Revolution? - For newspapers to flourish online, they must engage in two-way conversations with their audiences, Jon Katz argues.. [Wired News]
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- White House Sets E-Commerce Agenda - The sweeping plan not only attempts to tie together Clinton's Internet policies. It's a welcome mat for geeks in front of the White House. [Wired News]
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- Who Is the New Special Envoy for Cryptography? - Crypto-policy wonks are skeptical about David Aaron and the role he's filling. [Wired News]
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- Who's This William Daley When He's Not Fainting? - The man best known as the brother and son of Chicago mayors will have a lot of influence on technology and the Internet. Wags wonder whether he can handle the Commerce Department job. [Wired News]
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- Why High-Tech Weapons Don't Work in Today's Low-Tech Wars - Sara Miles reflects on truly innovative warfare, education, access to information, and dialog. [Wired News]
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- Will India's Telecom Watchdog Have Any Bite? - A new telecom watchdog agency will help India prepare for the arrival of AT T and Baby Bells - but it won't have much bite. [Wired News]
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- WinStar Slams Customers, Gets Slapped by FCC - Many customers who entered a WinStar sweepstakes also unwittingly agreed to have their long-distance carrier switched - to WinStar. The FCC cried foul. [Wired News]
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- WIPO Agrees on Intellectual Rights Treaties - The two agreements reached in Geneva will have a broad effect on artists, writers, and musicians on the Web, as well as on libraries, Net surfers, and ISPs. [Wired News]
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- WTO Accord May Mean Lower Prices Abroad, but Not in US - An agreement to drop tariffs on computer technology is not likely to lower computer prices in the United States right away, but increased competition could lead to lower prices in the future. [Wired News]
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