Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Germany Fears Net Backlash - Netizens in Germany worry that high-tech firms will shun their country after a judge ruled that the CompuServe executive was liable for failing to block illegal material from the site. By Sheryl Oring. [Wired News]   Germany's Internet Angst - The Felix Somm conviction was only the tip of the iceberg in the ocean of Germany's ill-conceived attempts to regulate speech online. By David Hudson. [Wired News]   Getting Out the Web Vote, Fraudulently - The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy ticket is the only candidate list not facing disqualification in Indiana University elections, after other candidates admitted to casting illegal votes via the Web. [Wired News]   Give Me Crypto or Give Me Death - Unless the United States reverses its policy blocking the export of strong encryption, personal privacy on the Internet will never be secured, two special interest groups say. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Going Postal, Going Nowhere - Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stay the USPS from its appointed rounds. But high-tech competition just might. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Good Help is Hard to Find - Can Canada solve its shortage of high-tech workers without the controversy that has dogged the industry in America? By Jennifer Hattam. [Wired News]   Gore: Protect Privacy - The vice president says that Americans must have their privacy protected online and calls on the high-tech industry to redouble its efforts to see that it happens. By Ed Murrieta. [Wired News]   Government Ready to Dictate Privacy Rules? - With an ambitious program lagging to get Internet merchants and publishers to subscribe to a strict code of conduct, activists and entrepreneurs are wary that Washington will impose regulations. [Wired News]   Groups Challenge Antiporn Law - Repeating events of two years ago, the nation's leading online civil liberties groups file suit against the Justice Department to crush a Net content restriction law. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   Gun Groups Take Aim at Database - If you want to buy a gun, Uncle Sam wants to get to know you first. Up in arms, the NRA files a lawsuit. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   H-1B Visa Bill Passes House - Silicon Valley's long-sought bill to increase the number of foreign engineers allowed into the United States passes the House easily. A presidential signature may be only days away. By Pete Danko. [Wired News]   Hacking for Human Rights? - The leader of a Chinese hacking group that last year claimed to have disabled a satellite is now setting up a new group to target the networks of companies doing business with China. By Arik Hesseldahl. [Wired News]   Hacktivists Join Activists - Online hacktivists will join their real-world counterparts in marking the ninth anniversary of highly publicized political slayings in El Salvador. Trouble is, the activists are unimpressed. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]   High Tech and the Poor - The World Bank invites hundreds of participants worldwide to go online and debate how information technologies affect the have-nots of the world. By Theta Pavis. [Wired News]   Hotmail Backs Dying Spam Bill - The Microsoft subsidiary gets behind a bill that would stem the spam flood, but admits its support may be too little, too late. By Ashley Craddock. [Wired News]   Hotmail Bags Spammers - The free email service is touting a federal judgment fining spammers for forging Hotmail's domain to send spam. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   House Sets Vote on Visas - Silicon Valley is rallying around a bill that would raise the cap on the number of temporary foreign workers allowed into the US. A vote looms, but so does a veto. By Pete Danko. [Wired News]   House Sides with Spammers - Despite outrage from Internet advocates, who say the latest antislamming proposal also contains provisions to legitimize spamming, a House subcommittee approves the measure. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]   House Takes Up Spam Bill - Free speech issues will likely dominate today's hearing on pending legislation to limit junk email. Net activists, meanwhile, vow their voices will be heard. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]   ICANN Gets Green Light - Now that ICANN has rewritten its bylaws, the White House has given it the go-ahead to become the organization that will manage the Net. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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