Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Net Privateers Squabble with Anti-Spammers - Thanks to a clerical error, a company that wants to find a solution to spam but doesn't understand the Internet steps on EPIC's toes. The advocacy group snaps back. [Wired News]   Net Regulation: It's Australian for Censorship - The government down under contemplates regulating the Net and allowing the local phone company to charge businesses for Net access. [Wired News]   Net as Parasite, Net as Opportunity - The International Telecommunications Union issues a report that says the Internet is fraught with challenges for telecom firms - but that it also represents their biggest opportunity. [Wired News]   Net to Cokie: Drop Dead - Democracy.net breaks down the walls separating the people and government. In Electric Word. [Wired News]   Net-Regulation Laws Ruled Unconstitutional - New York state's legislation to protect kids from Net smut is overturned as a violation of the Constitution's commerce clause. In Georgia, a federal judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking a law that seeks to make online anonymity illegal. [Wired News]   Netizens Spam FCC Over Per-Minute Net Fees - A flood of 100,000 emails in the past week, regarding the per-minute Net-access charges proposed by phone companies, temporarily shut down the FCC's computer system. [Wired News]   Netoyens Protest French Shutdown - Told to stop sucking free bandwidth from a national research network, displaced users vent their plight on the Web, Usenet, and mailing lists. [Wired News]   Network Solutions Takes AlterNIC to Court - After redirecting surfers from InterNIC to his own alternative domain-name registry, Eugene Kashpureff is in hot water, and a little less chipper than earlier in his protest. [Wired News]   Network Solutions Target of Antitrust Probe - The exclusive registry of top-level domain names discloses that it's under scrutiny just as it gets ready to launch an IPO. [Wired News]   Network Solutions to Keep Hold on Names, for a While - A Commerce official tells a House panel there simply isn't enough time to get a new domain-name system in place before the government's contract with the exclusive registrar runs out. [Wired News]   New Bill Would Bar Net Taxes, FCC Rates - Legislation introduced in the Senate and House aims to head off a growing trend in the United States and abroad to tax Net services. [Wired News]   New Bill Would Limit Net Regulation - Internet Protection Act seeks to keep the government from overseeing rates, practices, services, and other workings of the Internet. [Wired News]   New Copyright Bill Would Protect ISPs - The question of how to protect intellectual property on the Internet is due to heat up in Congress this fall, and Senator John Ashcroft has produced a proposal he says will accomplish the feat. [Wired News]   New Crypto Bill in Senate - A bill introduced by the power trio of Senators John McCain, Bob Kerrey, and Ernest Hollings, hews close to the Clinton administration line on crypto: domestic key recovery, new classes of criminal offenses, continued export controls. [Wired News]   New Crypto Board Proposed in Senate Bill - The new Pro-CODE bill would establish an "Information Security Board" to develop export controls on encryption, Wired News has learned. [Wired News]   New FCC Boss Speaks Out on Day One - Kennard sounds an interventionist note on several issues facing the commission. Also: The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee sounds off on the eve of antitrust hearings. [Wired News]   New FCC Chief Confirmed - William Kennard wins a 99-1 Senate vote, but gets reminders that Congress is unhappy with the agency. [Wired News]   New Registry for IP Numbers - The National Science Foundation OKs a proposal from Network Solutions, the private company under government contract to register domain names and numbers, to create a separate number registry. [Wired News]   New Rules for Independent Contractors? - A provision in the recently passed House tax bill would shield the high-tech industry from the current risk that the IRS will classify contractors as employees. Organized labor is not sold on the concept. [Wired News]   New US Trade Rep Is Old Friend to High-Tech - Charlene Barshefsky has won Senate confirmation. Now she faces challenges in e-commerce and negotiating China's entry into world trade. [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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