Re: Political participation for whom? [cr-95/9/10]

1995-09-16 Sender: •••@••.••• (Don Porter) On Sep 14, 1995 01:11:18, ‘Cyber Rights <•••@••.•••>’ wrote: >Sender: Heidi Howard <•••@••.•••> > >In discussions of universal access, I have rarely heard anyone say that >it would be a bad thing if everyone who wanted to get info from the >internet could do so- the question is therefore, What … Read more…

Re: Microsoft and others teaming up to police internet

1995-09-16 Sender: •••@••.••• (Off the edge ) >Did anyone else hear about Microsoft and others (IBM and maybe apple as >well as other software companies) teaming up to look into creating some >sort of policing effort for the web and other internet services? Does >anyone else have more details. It was a quick sound bite … Read more…

Re: PFF Agenda [cr-95/9/4]

1995-09-15 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 01:09:30 -0700 >Subject: Re: PFF Agenda [cr-95/9/4] >Sender: •••@••.••• (Glen Raphael) > >> Cyberspace Inc and the Robber Baron Age > >The current consensus view of economists is that the 19th century “trusts” >were generally pro-consumer and breaking them up was anti-consumer. “Concensus view”? There’s more … Read more…

Conferences [cr-95/9/15]

1995-09-15 Sender: •••@••.••• Subject: Re: Brooklyn Conference “FREE SPEECH OR FILTH: SHOULD CONGRESS REGULATE COMMUNICATIONS ON THE INTERNET?” The Brooklyn Law School Cyberlaw Society is sponsoring a symposium on the free speech battle on the Internet. The symposium will be held on Thursday, September 21, in the Subotnick Conference Center (10th Floor) at 7 p.m., … Read more…

Child Porn Mongers Busted by FBI [cr-95/9/15]

1995-09-15 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> Without knowing all the details, I think we can cautiously applaud this bust by the Feds. One of the main arguments by would-be Congressional censors, reintroduced yesterday in a bill by Senate Judciary Comm. Chairman Orrin Hatch has been that child porn is freely available all over the Net. … Read more…

Re: Unreasonable seizures (was Re: Scientology causes seizure…) [cr-95/9/3]

1995-09-15 Sender: “Steve Eppley” <•••@••.•••> David Cloutman <•••@••.•••> wrote: ><much unneeded political posturing deleted> >I caught a bit of a TV show last night that apparently might answer your >question. Appearently forensics experts can retrieve deleted files from a >hard disk. Short of reformatting the drive, there is no way to actually >erase a file … Read more…

COS Loses FACTnet Court Case [cr-95/9/15]

1995-09-15 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> Good news on the cyber liberties front from Colorado. A federal judge cited “the [electronic] free exchange of ideas” as serving the “public interest,” as he ordered the return of computers and files to FACTnet Tuesday. Below is the New York Times story on the ruling. Craig ================================================== SCIENTOLOGISTS … Read more…

Re: Microsoft and others teaming up to police internet

1995-09-15 Sender: •••@••.••• (Jerome Thorel) Yes, I saw a WSJ article about this High-Tech alliance : >HIGH-TECH ALLIANCE AGAINST PORN >A group of high-tech companies, including IBM, Microsoft, AT&T, MCI, America >Online, Netscape Communications, Time Warner and Viacom, is forming an >alliance to fight cyberporn. The group will be coordinated by the >Massachusetts Institute of … Read more…

Re: There is No Revolution Without Revolutionaries [cr-95/9/13]

1995-09-15 Sender: Vigdor Schreibman – FINS <•••@••.•••> On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Cyber Rights wrote: > Sender: MARK STAHLMAN <•••@••.•••> > Subject: Re: PFF Agenda > > Folks: > > Give up on the Magna Carta. It’s dead, dead, dead. There was no attempt to > discuss it at this year’s event and there is … Read more…

Australian events [cr-95/9/15]

1995-09-15 Thanks to Craig Johnson, our ftp site now has a newsletter from Electronic Frontiers Australia, an organization with goals similar to the U.S.’s Electronic Frontier Foundation. The newsletter is in the Announcements directory under the name Electronic-Frontiers-Australia, and I can send it to you if you don’t have access to the Web or ftp. … Read more…