Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Little-Known Journal Adds Well-Known Names - IntellectualCapital.com brings Paul Simon, liberal, and Peggy Noonan, conservative, into its "vigorously bipartisan" political Web site. [Wired News]   Lobbying on Eve of Clinton Net Summit - The president and his Number Two man will preside over a three-day session on keeping kids safe online. Today is preview day. [Wired News]   Lone Star Battle over Censorware Bill - The Texas House or Representatives passes a bill that would require the state's ISPs to provide free content-blocking software to customers. [Wired News]   Lots of People Know What Happened to Lost Jet - The story of the missing Captain Craig David Button and his A-10 jet is a natural for conspiracy theorists. So far, though, surmises on the Net draw skepticism. [Wired News]   Lott Clears Way for FCC Vote - The Senate majority leader silences Republican grumbling. Votes on Kennard and other agency nominees are expected soon. Also: New private summits on Net governance are announced. [Wired News]   MS Confab Filled with Worry, Spin, Backbiting - Day One of what consumer activist Ralph Nader billed as a chance to open a dialog on Microsoft's increasing power in the software marketplace degenerates into a worryfest. [Wired News]   Magazine Covers Reflect the Year Ahead - Jon Katz on Newsweek, Time and big-media celebrity blow jobs. [Wired News]   Magaziner: Kids Have Unique Net Privacy Needs - The architect of upcoming White House e-commerce policy says children are vulnerable despite high Net aptitudes. But he offers no specifics on remedies. [Wired News]   Magaziner: US Would Back Loose Net Charter - Clinton's Internet czar says a global agreement on Net governance principles would be a good thing - as long as it's not accompanied by an enforcement bureaucracy. [Wired News]   Making Imaginary Sex Illegal - A US law quietly passed in 1996 outlaws creating, selling, or even possessing computer-simulated images of smutty kids. Civil libertarians call it a First Amendment travesty. [Wired News]   Massachusetts May Backtrack on Net Tax - Bay State ISPs seeking exemption from the levy have found allies in the Legislature and the governor's office. [Wired News]   Math Prof Renews Fight to Block Crypto Export Rules - A federal judge in San Francisco appears unswayed from her view that the Clinton administration's encryption export rules are a free-speech issue. [Wired News]   McCain Open to Key Recovery Alternative - The Arizona Republican's encryption policy bill would set up a key recovery system for data tranmissions in the United States. He says that now he's willing to listen to other suggestions. [Wired News]   McCain Talks Crypto - The Republican senator dropped a bomb on Washington's crypto deliberations this week. In a brief conversation with Wired News, he reveals a certain bent to his concern over encryption. [Wired News]   McVeigh Trial Transcripts Want to Be Free - It looked like the only way to get Web access to daily transcripts from the Oklahoma City bombing trial was to buy in. But once again, public information has found free online publishers. [Wired News]   Media Drink Up This Week's Net Panic - Jon Katz pours criticism on cyberperil studies, and the media which report them. [Wired News]   Media Hysteria: An Epidemic of Panic - Jon Katz on recovered memory, chronic fatigue, and Elaine Showalter's Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media. [Wired News]   Media Pro Ensnared in Fight with College Editors - Michael Gartner is used to the rough and tumble of the big-time news game from stints heading NBC News and the Des Moines Register. Editor now of a small-town daily, he finds himself in a spat with the kids running a college rag. [Wired News]   Media Watchdog to Protest Mediasauri - FAIR plans to protest the coverage of three major US papers of a story by the San Jose Mercury News outlining a CIA-contra-cocaine link. [Wired News]   Media and Democracy Congress Upbeat, Unruly - There was booing, there was hissing, and in between, even some touchy-feely about building community online. [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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