Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Have Geek Will Travel - Jon Katz encounters Liberator, a high schooler who earns 5 bucks a pop blocking blocking software and foiling email bombers. [Wired News]   He Tries to Draw Legal Borders in Cyberspace - Jeremiah 'Jay' Nixon, Missouri's attorney general, says he's defending his state's sovereignty by going after online beer sellers and casinos. His targets say he's stumping for office. [Wired News]   He Wants to Be a Founding Father - Robert Shearing - MD, lawyer, tech entrepreneur, and Net newbie - braves the turbulent waters of Internet politics to put forward a proposal for a democratic world congress to run the domain-name system. [Wired News]   He's Mad as Hell, and Telling the Web - Something about a recent stadium vote seems fishy to San Francisco Net consultant Ken McCarthy. He says the city's media has fallen down on the job, so he's publishing his own 'expos ' online. [Wired News]   Hearing After Hearing for Kashpureff - The domain-name activist gets another hearing - and promises of more next month - as he remains jailed in Toronto. His lawyer says he will start a defense fund for the AlterNIC proprietor. [Wired News]   Hearing Ponders How to Protect Kids' Privacy - A Federal Trade Commission hearing on children's privacy demonstrated that the marketers and others aren't close to conceding that there's anything about their practices that needs to be regulated. [Wired News]   Helms a Threat to Kennard Nomination? - The senator is reportedly making noises about blocking the elevation of William Kennard to head the FCC. This time, the welfare of a North Carolina businessman, rather than ideology, is at the bottom of his opposition. [Wired News]   High Tech Keeps Its R&D Tax Break - The technology industry won a continuation of its hefty tax credit for research and development. The cost to the Treasury makes the prize the industry really wants - a permanent tax break - elusive. [Wired News]   High-Tech Leaders Counsel Malaysia PM - They're offering guidance on meta-issues - and stand to be in line for mega-sweet inducements from the Malaysian government. [Wired News]   Home Drug Test Raises Red Flags - "This is a case of someone who sees an opportunity to make some bucks by selling this stuff to frightened parents," a psychiatrist warns. [Wired News]   Hong Kong Tech Looks for Visible Hand - The city's unheralded info-tech industries look for more government involvement in their struggle to contend with well-backed Asian rivals. [Wired News]   Hong Kong's Divided Mind - With 20 days to go until Beijing takes over Hong Kong, the air of the city is suffused with equal parts optimism, uncertainty, and resignation. [Wired News]   Hong Kong's First Cyberporn Convict - How the gears of justice turned in the case of Cheung Kam-keung, who earned a place last week as a legal footnote in Hong Kong history: the first resident convicted of cyberporn. [Wired News]   Hong Kong's Last Angry Woman - Emily Lau has lots to say about the Internet, freedom of expression, and the man hand-picked by the Communist Chinese to run Hong Kong. [Wired News]   House Bill Reignites Crypto Fight - A bill reintroduced in Congress prohibits the mandatory key escrow that the Clinton administration has been calling for. [Wired News]   House Bill Would Limit Stock Lawsuits - The move by two lawmakers from technocentric districts is designed to reinforce federal law and extend its reach to state courts. [Wired News]   House Committee Publications to Go Online - You'll be able to get information at the same time members of Congress and lobbyists get it. [Wired News]   House Crypto Bill Gets Majority Backing - Bob Goodlatte's Safety and Freedom Through Encryption Act now has 250 co-sponsors, an apparent guarantee of majority approval in the 435-seat House. But the missing names signal that the legislation still faces some huge challenges. [Wired News]   House Panel OKs Crypto Bill - Highly anticipated legislation that would loosen the US position on mandatory key escrow and export policy passes the Judiciary Committee, the furthest yet for any such bill. [Wired News]   House Panel Questions FBI's Stance on Tap Law - Three years after it was enacted, a law to modernize police wiretap capability is still far from implementation. One reason, critics say, is the FBI's overreaching approach to digital-age surveillance. [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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