1995-09-12 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> > Summary from the moderator: > > If people on this list like this kind of direction-setting, I’ll try > to do it regularly. Here’s one who does. Great idea. > Overly zealous raids > > they didn’t have to > confiscate the systems. To prove copyright infringement, all they … Read more…

1995-09-12 Sender: “Steve Eppley” <•••@••.•••> Connie Page wrote: >They feel that rather than have to prove to the court that the >evidence on disk or tape is what was on the hard drive of a particular >computer, they will simply present the entire computer system. This way >there are fewer problems in proof. This evidence … Read more…

1995-09-12 Sender: •••@••.••• In a message dated 95-09-08 17:37:45 EDT, you write: > Many believe that bringing the NII to every person is an important > goal, An answer may lie in converting the voting booths which populate the polling places which we use now. Instead of a paper ballot with a small punch to … Read more…

1995-09-12 Sender: Vigdor Schreibman – FINS <•••@••.•••> On Mon, 11 Sep 1995, Cyber Rights wrote: > Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> > > I share your concerns over “monopoly capitalism.” Trouble is, > alternatives attempted by the East Bloc or other socialist countries, > particularly in the developing world, are largely perceived to have > failed. … Read more…

1995-09-11 Pointer from moderator: Another posting about the Church of Scientology raid on the Dutch xs4all Internet provider (which was mentioned on this mailing list a few days ago) is now on our ftp site. I put it at the end of our growing file called Church-of-Scientology-Raids, in the directory Net-Suppression. Andy ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by … Read more…

1995-09-11 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> > Sender: Vigdor Schreibman – FINS <•••@••.•••> > > debunking the ideas of monopoly capitalism. The only defense against this > plague on our lives, however, is democracy: empowerment of the individual … > People seem to > be hopelessly stuck in the old self-interest, marketplace, monopoly > capitalist ideology, … Read more…

1995-09-11 Sender: Stanton McCandlish <•••@••.•••> For those that didn’t see it in it’s entirety, I’ll reproduced Mark’s original fully. It’s not that long, so no big deal. Mark: Esther, Barlow and Stewart were all invited, just like you were. There’s not conspiracy here. EFF does not have any formal ties with PFF, and I think … Read more…

1995-09-10 Sender: •••@••.••• (Glen Raphael) A meeting announcement relevant to recent discussion here: The next general meeting of SMUG, the Stanford/Palo Alto Macintosh User’s Group, will feature speakers from SurfWatch and RSA. SurfWatch is a program that lets parents prevent their children from accessing objectionable material over the internet. RSA is a key player in … Read more…

1995-09-10 Sender: •••@••.••• Just a thought on why the police confiscate the entire system. The Federal Rules of Evidence make it extremely difficult to bring evidence based uponnce new technology. There are ways to do this (business records, for example), but most law enforcement people have been burned on technicalities a little too often. They … Read more…

1995-09-10 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. Anyone who still believes that the “Robber Barons” were universally harmful and that government intervention protected us from them then or … Read more…