Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Newt's Still with Us, but Who's with Him? - Despite vocal opposition from within his own party, the ethically challenged House Speaker holds his job. [Wired News]   Next on US E-Commerce Agenda: Convince Europe - Now that President Clinton has made a forceful declaration that the Internet should be a free-trade zone, US officials confront the task of getting Europe to see the White House way as the right way. [Wired News]   Nigerian Press Still Feels Shock of '95 Bomb - TheNEWS on the Net would have at least given an immediate international context and concern to what's happening in Nigeria. [Wired News]   No Meeting of Minds on Pro-CODE - A bill that would dismantle the Clinton administration's restrictions on encryption exports is a cop's nightmare, FBI director Louis Freeh tells a Senate panel. [Wired News]   No Mercy on Court TV - Jon Katz enters the cockfight that is Court TV and is savaged - and then saved by Johnnie Cochran. [Wired News]   No Such Thing as a Free Computer - People who fix used computers and give them to schools and libraries say a new House bill doesn't do enough to make sure recipients can use the machines. [Wired News]   Notes from (the Jon Katz) Underground - Following a reviewer's attack on his inner sanctum, Jon Katz describes the place media rants are born. [Wired News]   Nottingham v. Net: Game, Set, Match to Net - British county officials who tried to block a damning satanic-abuse report admit what taunting netizens said all along: There's no way to unpublish a document in cyberspace. [Wired News]   Nuke Storage Bill on Senate Floor - An attempt to force the issue of how to store the United States' 45,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste nears a vote with a presidential veto promised. [Wired News]   OVS: An Alternative to the Cable Guys - 'Open video system' could be a Washingtonian way for telcos to take on your local cable company, says Michael B. Grebb. But don't get excited just yet. [Wired News]   Ohio Bill Would Limit Libraries' Net Access - Spurred by a reporter's account of seeing kids in a small-town reading room checking out cyberporn, the Ohio Legislature is on the verge of approving a law that will blinker library terminals. [Wired News]   Ohio Libraries Keep Censorware Discretion - A parents' campaign to require the state's public libraries to use blocking software on Internet terminals fails to sway a state Senate committee. [Wired News]   Online Jobs Abound, but How Long Will It Last? - College kids, beware: The future of working online is flexibility, not HTML. [Wired News]   Open Market to Export 128-bit Encryption - This is the first time a company has been granted such export permission, without being required to provide law enforcement with a key recovery option to decipher encrypted files. [Wired News]   Opponents Strike Back at Domain-Name Change - Chris Ambler says he already owns .web, so the International Ad Hoc Committee can't sell it as part of a plan to expand the number of domain names. [Wired News]   Oppressors, Beware! Net Fights for Rights - Human rights groups show that getting wired can work wonders. Some like Amnesty International are finding new ways to use the Net in protecting human rights. [Wired News]   Our Just Awards - Jon Katz suggests we should forget the Pulitzers - new media needs its own awards. [Wired News]   Out of the Basement, on to NPR! - Jon Katz begins his book tour and faces talk-show hell when he finds all issues are debated on either the left or the right. [Wired News]   PICS Puts on the Red Light - PICS, which would embed multiple ratings schemes into Net-based media, would be a dangerous experiment in the prefragmentation of expression, says Jaron Lanier. [Wired News]   Panel Appointment Rankles Broadcasters - Al Gore's choice of Norman Ornstein to a commission that will propose new rules for the TV broadcasters' public-service commitment is unfair, the industry says, because Ornstein is already a committed advocate of requiring free airtime for political candidates. [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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