Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Indian Tribe Launches Online Lottery - But the state of Missouri has already filed suit against the Idaho tribe, which claims that its server rests off US soil since its reservation is "sovereign territory." [Wired News]   Industry Rules for Kid Ads Get Cold Response - The advertising industry proposes voluntary guidelines for how marketers should approach kids and gather data on the Web. Critics say more restraint, and perhaps regulation, is called for. [Wired News]   Industry: Access Fees Would Hinder Net Growth - A report refutes telephone companies' demands for access charges for local Internet connections, and calls for healthy competition. [Wired News]   Info Watchdogs Challenge FBI Wiretap Plan - The Center for Democracy and Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation ask the Federal Communications Commission to mediate plans for a new digital surveillance system. [Wired News]   Initiative To Focus on Disabled Web Access - The World Wide Web consortium, disability rights' groups and the Clinton administration have joined in an effort to try to make the Web accessible. [Wired News]   Intel Runs into Costa Rica's Past - The largest foreign investment in Costa Rica's history ran into permit requirements and an archaeological find before groundbreaking took place last week. [Wired News]   InterNIC-AlterNIC Dispute Settled - Eugene Kashpureff, the name-space bad boy who goofed with the domain registry, says he's reached a deal in Network Solutions' suit against him. [Wired News]   Internet Privacy Bill Could Inhibit ISPs - Simson Garfinkel speculates on the effect of a new Internet privacy bill on ISPs. [Wired News]   Invasion of the Billionaire Dwarves! - They've engulfed the information business, transforming it from a civic institution into an out-of-control monster that overwhelms, confuses, and fragments us. [Wired News]   Invitation to a Beheading - Katz is asked to join world titans talking about info-age power shifts. [Wired News]   Ireland Warned About Net Controls - The Global Internet Liberty Campaign files a plea with the government to take a tolerant, non-intrusive approach to any Internet regulations it adopts. History suggests the government's approach will be anything but hands-off. [Wired News]   Is Cybersitter Taking a Naughty Peek? - The censorware outfit's main nemesis says the company is snooping over your hard drive before it'll let you download its product. Cybersitter responds with little more than name-calling. [Wired News]   Is Washington the Media Heart of Darkness? - Jon Katz continues on his book tour and gets a warmish reception in DC. The horror. [Wired News]   It's a Small, Multimedia World, After All - Fear of a Disney-fied 'culture corruption' kept video communications out of the sweeping WTO telecom agreement. [Wired News]   Japan Wants to 'Wake Up' Unused Patents - The plan is to tap a potentially lucrative but mostly ignored resource: thousands of technology patents that no one has ever tried to use. [Wired News]   Japanese Court Rules Against Leading ISP - Amid fears that the Internet could turn into a forum for expressing personal grudges, a Tokyo judge fines a service provider for not killing posts about a subscriber. [Wired News]   Japanese Police Seek Splatter-Film Fans - Desperate for a lead in a grisly kidnapping case, Japanese police are asking video stores for names of people who rented violent videos. [Wired News]   Johnny Cash Talks the Line on Copyright Law - The Man in Black appears before a House panel to plead the case for enacting new copyright protections to protect artists from digital pirating of their works. [Wired News]   Judge Affirms Crypto Free-Speech Ruling - In a follow-up to a case fought in a San Francisco federal courtroom last year, a judge said that the US government's crypto-export policy remains unconstitutional. [Wired News]   Judge Defers AlterNIC Action - A federal judge in Virginia said that although it appears that Network Solutions Inc. has suffered harm at the hands of domain guerrilla Eugene Kashpureff, he cannot act on the case until the company presents a more specific injunction request. [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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