Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Feds Seek Fine, Contempt Order Against Microsoft - In harsh terms, the Justice Department says the company has tried to strong-arm PC-makers as part of its browser war with Netscape. Microsoft says it's doing nothing that a 1995 court agreement doesn't allow. [Wired News]   Fight Continues for Crypto Bill - Proponents of the effort to loosen federal government controls on encryption exports and ban the creation of a universal back door to let cops get at scrambled data are in 11th-hour talks to salvage their much-amended legislation. [Wired News]   Fight for CIA Disclosure Isn't Over - The Federation of American Scientists won a round with the intelligence agency, getting the spymasters to tell the public how much they spent on their activities last year. But neither the CIA nor the federation is talking like the issue is closed. [Wired News]   Filing W-2s Online: Some Are Already Doing It - A pilot project allows companies to eliminate the middleman: paper. [Wired News]   Final Farewell to Cult and Hysteria - The fickle media washes its hands of Heaven's Gate. [Wired News]   Finding the Middle Media - Jon Katz examines how the Heaven's Gate story united old and new media. [Wired News]   Finland Considering Computer Virus Bill - Lawmakers are drafting a bill that would make it illegal to spread viruses - even if done accidentally. [Wired News]   Finns Use Summit to Show Off Web Chops - With the whole Net world watching, Finland tries to show that it deserves its rep as the world's most wired nation. [Wired News]   Florida Backs Off on 'Ridicule' Charges - The state won't press case against teens who were arrested for allegedly putting up a Web site that said their band teacher was gay. [Wired News]   Florida Panel Says No Net Taxes, But for How Long? - Despite recommendations by the task force, Internet access taxes may only be a matter of time. [Wired News]   Foes Vow to Take Domain Name Fight to FCC - Alternative domain name providers say the seven proposed top-level names could lead to trademark infringement and other intellectual property problems. [Wired News]   Footnoting Web History - A Massachusetts judge decides to release his ruling on a sensational murder case on the Web. The premeditated net publishing is a significant act in web history. [Wired News]   For Hong Kong, a Censorship Threat from Within - While the world wonders what China might do to the city's freedoms, those online know that a tendency to anticipate what Beijing wants could lead to pre-emptive muzzling. Plus, tune-in to the sounds of transition. [Wired News]   For Social Security Reform, Study Chile - Jose Pinera explains how privatization would give workers a free choice. [Wired News]   For Venture Capitalists, Australia Is One Big Outback - Money people say that capital-gains taxes Down Under are a key factor in driving investment and intellectual capital away from what on paper ought to be an information-technology powerhouse. [Wired News]   Foulmouthed Heroes - Stern, Imus, Limbaugh, and Flynt: Do we owe them? Jon Katz asks. [Wired News]   France Adopts E-Commerce Security Protocol - French banks, driven by a desire to improve on software-based e-commerce security measures, come up with a hardware approach. [Wired News]   Free-Lancers Have Just Begun to Fight - After losing an important court decision on electronic copyrights, the lead plaintiff for free-agent scribes suggests that the battle will be rejoined both in the courtroom and in Congress. [Wired News]   Free-Speechers Have a Go at NY Net Smut Law - A serious hearing on the state's attempt to protect children from pornography on the Net takes a detour: a discussion on whether a courtroom painting of a judge is "sexy." [Wired News]   Freeh's Net-Horror Show and Tell - Trying to beef up the FBI's budget for investigating crimes against children, the director tells again of the dangers his agency has found on the Internet. [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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