Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   House Panel Rejects Crypto Amendment - In the latest of a series of bitter skirmishes, the House Commerce Committee turns down a proposal to give law enforcement and spy agencies instant accesss to Americans' encrypted data. [Wired News]   House Panel Seeks Expert Crypto Comment - The Commerce Committee is on a mission to help develop US encryption export policy. Members are canvassing the heads of the FBI and National Security Agency, among others. [Wired News]   House Panel Wants Increase in R&D Spending - The House Science Committee takes a generous position on federal funding for basic science projects. [Wired News]   House Panels Agree: No New Net Taxes - Two subcommittees give easy passage to a bill that would impose a moratorium on new taxes for Internet-related commerce or services. [Wired News]   House Votes on Spending Net Fund - The Clinton administration plan would initially wire federal labs and universities to a network 1,000 times faster than today's Net. [Wired News]   How the Telecom Act Came to Be - A capsule history of US telecommunications regulation from 1866, when telegraph companies were forced to carry the Associated Press, to today, with the FCC considering guaranteeing low-cost Net access for schools. [Wired News]   Hundt Plays Lonely Digital TV Gambit - FCC Chairman Reed Hundt has long-term fiscal reasons for pushing early broadcast of digital TV. But industry isn't buying into the scenario. [Wired News]   Hundt: AT&T-SBC Merger 'Unthinkable' - FCC chief says talked-about telco deal would be blow to competition. [Wired News]   Hundt: Don't Blame FCC for Cable Rate Hikes - The Federal Communications Commission chairman says that the costs of programming and building new facilities are the reasons subscribers are paying more for cable television service. [Wired News]   IAHC's New Handle? Dangerfield.org - As yet another vocal critic steps up to challenge its plans to roll out seven new generic top-level domains, the biggest question about the work of the now-disbanded International Ad Hoc Committee is whether it will ever get any respect. [Wired News]   IRS Plans to Outsource Computer Upgrades - The Treasury deputy outlines a plan to streamline the agency - key to which will be government officials overseeing technological improvements. [Wired News]   IRS Seeks Ways to Untangle Electronic-Filing Mess - The IRS is years away from having a computer system capable of handling the traffic, but a congressional panel wants to convince more Americans to file their returns electronically. [Wired News]   ISP Fights Nebraska Regulation of Iphone - Soon the Nebraska Legislature will hear a potentially significant bill which would forbid the state from regulating Internet communication. [Wired News]   ISP Protest Sparks Debate in Austria - The nation's ISPs went offline for only two hours on Tuesday, but the brief protest against a police raid has drawn new attention to the issue of Net censorship. [Wired News]   ISPs Seek Common Ground with Software Makers - ISPs and software companies agree to disagree - and discuss guidelines on copyright infringement liablility. [Wired News]   In Court, Arguing for Net Speech as Commerce - Opponents of New York state's Net decency law adopt a new tack in fighting free-speech curbs. Such laws put unconstitutional shackles on interstate commerce, they say. [Wired News]   In Defense of Libertarianism - Libertarianism, as a rule, attracts the most strident criticism from those who understand it the least. Such critics aren't describing libertarianism, but their own fanciful creation. [Wired News]   In Harmony's Way - Two months after President Clinton launched his yearlong Initiative on Race with high-minded palaver, the presidential panel designed to lead the discussion seems to be self-destructing. [Wired News]   India Opens Up to Private ISPs - The government breaks a monopoly stranglehold on access services to the nation of 1 billion. The hoped-for result is faster service and a boom in Net use. [Wired News]   Indian Telecom Watchdog Bites Government - In their first big case, India's new telecom regulators scold the government for a steep price hike levied against cellular phone users. [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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