Re: Summary and looking ahead [cr-95/10/19]

1995-10-29 Sender: Bob Turner <•••@••.•••> I noticed you had blanked out the words in someones communication because you felt some people might take offence… May I suggest you go to http://www.xmission.com/~seer/jdksoftware/ there you can pick up a program called the Internet Filter..Version Zero it replaces what is normally considered bad language with xxxxx’s. It would … Read more…

Tx Comptroller to host “town hall” [cr-95/10/28]

1995-10-27 Reposted with permission–Andy. ——- Start of forwarded message ——- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 22:09:19 0600 From: Jeffrey Weiss <•••@••.•••> X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: •••@••.••• Subject: Tx Comptroller to host “town hall” X-Url: http://www.window.state.tx.us/imo/column.html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: •••@••.••• Precedence: bulk Reply-To: •••@••.••• The Texas Comptroller is … Read more…

Re: Summary and looking ahead [cr-95/10/19]

1995-10-27 Sender: •••@••.••• (Kurt Guntheroth) •••@••.••• wrote >some of us continue to use hurtful and nasty words for >”shock” value thereby helping to keep them alive and well and their use >thriving for those who use them strictly for their hate value. If we did >not use them …we could >probably wipe many words out … Read more…

Re: FRONTLINE PROBES BIG BUSINESS INVESTMENT IN CYBERSPACE, Oct 31st [cr-95/10/27]

1995-10-27 Sender: “Bryan A. Alexander” <•••@••.•••> Karl’s lines about “If you can’t stand the marketing, get out of the marketplace” ends up making the post to which he was responding much more frightening than it already was: in an age where trans- or meta-national corporations are extending their reach in an ambitious variety of ways, … Read more…

Medical privacy, S. 1360 [cr-95/10/28]

1995-10-27 Summary from moderator: A bill called the “Medical Records Confidentiality Act of 1995” has been introduced into the U.S. Senate by Robert Bennett (R, Utah). Debate about its effects is going on in some other mailing lists. Jamie Love of Taxpayer Assets Project thinks the bill formalizes invasion of privacy, while Deirdre Mulligan of … Read more…

Re: Summary and looking ahead [cr-95/10/19]

1995-10-26 Henry Huang On Oct 26, 13:08, •••@••.••• wrote: > If pictures, names, addresses and home phone numbers had to be on everything > that went out over the Net I wonder how much of a concern censorship would > even be. How much of a problem would child porn (or any generally conceived > … Read more…

CPSR document on telecom [cr-95/10/27]

1995-10-26 Introduction from moderator: I finished this document yesterday. CPSR leadership is now talking about officially adopting it; I’ll hear from them by Tuesday. Because the very last paragraph promotes it as a CPSR document and it hasn’t received official blessing, I’m not yet ready to send it to the media, politicians, etc. But you … Read more…

Re: Summary and looking ahead [cr-95/10/19]

1995-10-26 Sender: •••@••.••• (joe donnelly) how about sending the original, uncensored message, labelled as “Uncensored”, followed by your altered version? Readers can select the one which satisfies their preferences/prejudices. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Sender: •••@••.••• Steve, In a message dated 95-10-25 19:15:50 EDT, you write: >Any seconds? The seconds are ticking away…in fact, some have already ticked off … Read more…

FRONTLINE PROBES BIG BUSINESS INVESTMENT IN CYBERSPACE, Oct 31st [cr-95/10/27]

1995-10-26 Sender: “W. Curtiss Priest” <•••@••.•••> October 20, 1995 CITS Observations on attached article: Dr. W. Curtiss Priest This upcoming program reveals a facet to the information highway that sounds Orwellian — subscribers to Prodigy, AOL, etc. are having their “every move” recorded. The reason? To better sell to you. Indeed, retailers want to move … Read more…

Conference on NII for non-profits [cr-95/10/27]

1995-10-26 Pointer from moderator: A conference titled “Cooperative Strategies and Solutions: Growing a National Info-Structure” will be held in Alexandria, Virginia on November 5-7. Contact Randi Botnick (•••@••.••• or 212-967-2843) at the Center for Strategic Communications. A web page is at: http://cdinet.com/tcn Andy ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram – •••@••.••• – Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) You … Read more…