Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   '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]   '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]   '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]   '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]   '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]   '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]   '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]   ... 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]   3 Firms Granted 56-bit Encryption Export - The Commerce Department approves export of stronger encryption - with a key recovery system. [Wired News]   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]   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]   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]   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]   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]   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]   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]   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]   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]   A Web Week in Review - Reflections on Microsoft's and Disney's Web footholds. [Wired News]   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]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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