Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Justice's Senate Critics Are Silent for Now - A small squad of senators has been sniping at the Justice Department and its antitrust chief, Joel Klein, for an alleged lack of rigor in policing the high-tech and telecommunications industries. [Wired News]   Kaczynski's High-Tech Hell - One established fact about the man believed to be the author of the Unabomber Manifesto: He took pains to put himself outside the world of modern technology. Now he's caught in a reality largely dictated by the presence of high-tech. [Wired News]   Katz's Communications Decency - In which the Media Ranter DIYs a more realistic CDA. [Wired News]   Kennard Tabbed for Top FCC Post - President Clinton is ready to invite FCC general counsel William Kennard to step further into the regulatory lion's den by appointing him to replace departing chairman Reed Hundt. [Wired News]   Kerrey Will Try to Block Pro-CODE, SAFE - The Democratic Senator from Nebraska, pointing to law enforcement and national security concerns, says he hopes to win passage of a bill this year. [Wired News]   Kerrey's Crypto Bill: Spies Like Us - The Nebraska Democrat's draft bill looks a lot like one put out by the White House nearly two months ago. Privacy activists see a lot of Cold War thinking in the proposal. [Wired News]   LA Reconsidering 'Writer's Tax' - After an outcry over the possibility it was launching a regime that would regulate creative expression, the Los Angeles mayor's office asks for more time to study the issue. [Wired News]   Latest Digital TV Fight Is Over Antennas - Broadcasters returned to the FCC last week with a petition asking that local officials be required to act fast on approving antennas for planned digital TV service. [Wired News]   Law and Order and a Crypto Bill - Despite Justice Department warnings that House encryption legislation will let loose a legion of criminals, SAFE continues to gain momentum. Why? It allows supporters to feel tough on crime and market-friendly. [Wired News]   Lawman Goes Online to Fight Spam - A Pennsylvania investigator jumps into the fray, and emerges convinced that the junk email problem demands action, no matter what the pols in Washington do. [Wired News]   Let's Make a Deal: The Wal-Mart Compact - Jon Katz wants to make a deal with the Wal-Mart defenders. [Wired News]   Lewd Schoolgirl-Ranking Site Yanked - GeoCities disappears a Web page that listed 125 to 150 Palo Alto middle-schoolers and made sexually explicit comments about them. [Wired News]   Lexis-Nexis Opens Database to Individuals - By paying a small fee, people can view files the company has compiled on them in its P-TRAK database. [Wired News]   Librarians Struggle with Censorware Issue - With many libraries buying blocking software to keep children out of the Net's bad neighborhoods, the American Library Association comes up with a non-software approach. [Wired News]   Library Blocks Porn, and May Block Rights - A Florida library says isn't against nudity - it brags of Mapplethorpe in its collection, after all - but wants to keep displays of flesh off its Internet terminals. The ACLU opposes the use of blocking software. [Wired News]   Library Net Wars: Solutions to Confusion - Jon Katz has some strategies for smart use of the Net at libraries. [Wired News]   Library Tries Critical Porn-Blocking Approach - The library board in Virginia's Loudoun County voted last week to keep pornography off the system's Net terminals. The twist: It's trying to do so by blocking only what would be deemed obscene under Supreme Court precedent. [Wired News]   Like Spam Bills or Hate Them? Vote Now - An online poll gives netizens a chance to voice their opinion of two bills in Congress that would attempt to banish the plague of junk email. [Wired News]   Listener Howls, Radio Host Bounced - A Cleveland talk-show host is kicked off the air after reading eight minutes of "Howl" at 2 a.m. The station says there is no "safe harbor" for obscenity on its airwaves. [Wired News]   Little Pig, I'll Blow Your Site Down - The Nottinghamshire County Council is huffing and puffing at mirror sites in North America to remove a child-abuse report it had suppressed. [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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