Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Procedural Footnote: CDA Buried - The Philadelphia federal court that overturned the law signs the official order. But other courts are expected to rule on permanent injunctions against other Net regulations. [Wired News]   Prof Proffers alt.sex Despite Ruling - Undaunted, Bill Loving plans to assign classwork material that relies on the restricted sites. [Wired News]   Profile of a Nominee: William Kennard - 'The two lessons I have learned from my parents are the lessons of community and communication,' President Clinton's choice to lead the FCC says. 'And I think I have learned how communications technology can bring communities together.' [Wired News]   Putting Felons on Full Display - A victims' rights group calls the planned anti-parole site "cyberdemocracy in full bloom," but the ACLU thinks it'll just get people "whipped into a frenzy." [Wired News]   Questions at the Close of the O. J. Saga - Jon Katz on O. J. Simpson and the death of justice. [Wired News]   Ramping Up Accessibility - Making mainstream software accessible to the disabled is the right - and profitable - thing to do. [Wired News]   Raw Facts Render Meat Packers Queasy - Congress just wants the USDA to serve citizens what they're paying for, but the meat and poultry industry, fearing consumer misunderstandings and predatory competitors, balks at putting plant safety data on the Web. [Wired News]   Re-Enlightened and It Feels So Good - Jon Katz looks at what the Digital Revolution and the Enlightenment share. [Wired News]   Reaction: Block, Don't Muzzle - To listen to those in Washington tell it, the CDA case's biggest lesson is never write a big statute when you can use software instead. [Wired News]   Ready or Not, New Cable Converter Boxes Coming - Deep within the 1996 Telecommunications Act is a provision that decrees the creation of a new consumer market in set-top boxes. Although the aim is to create competition, no one really knows if there will be any demand for the devices. [Wired News]   Rebuilding a Broken Society Online - As Bosnia's tenuous peace continues to hold, a group of wired US legal scholars tries to use the Net to help reconstruct the country's shattered legal system. [Wired News]   Recording Industry Goes to War Against Web Sites - The Recording Industry Association of America drops its relatively low-key approach to suspected copyright pirates and goes to federal court to get three sites shut down. [Wired News]   Reed Hundt at the FCC: Key Dates, Events - A capsule history of the retiring chairman's tenure at the Federal Communications Commission. [Wired News]   Reflections in a Smeary Slate - The Web changed Slate more than vice versa, says Jon Katz. [Wired News]   Remembering the Great Web Blackout - A year ago, hundreds of netizens turned their Web pages black to protest the Communications Decency Act. Dave Winer puts up a commemorative page. [Wired News]   Report Blasts Clinton Crypto Plan - A panel of academic and industrial encryption experts concludes that the White House vision of a global key recovery system is too technically complex and costly to build. Beyond that, it would not adequately protect data. [Wired News]   Report Takes Aim at Cyber Patrol's Blacklist - Activists take a hard look at site-blocking software. The results are not friendly to filtering ears. [Wired News]   Report: Clinton Backing off Hard-Line Net-Smut Stance - Anticipating the US Supreme Court will overturn the Communications Decency Act, the administration seeks an approach that will depend on blocking devices and industry self-regulation. [Wired News]   Report: Tech Can Help Cut Greenhouse Emissions - An Energy Department study says that a switch from coal to natural gas for power plants and the development of more efficient cars and appliances can help freeze emission levels. [Wired News]   Republicans Plot a Secret Database - A GOP planning group envisions a limited-access database to exchange ideas with other party leaders. [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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