Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Reversal of Fortune - Clinton administration's possible CDA flip-flop: Typical, says Katz. [Wired News]   Rights Groups Denounce UK Crypto Paper - They fear a rush to enact key recovery recommendations before the public and the new government have time to respond. [Wired News]   Ritual Abuse Posting Sparks Furor - Three journalists put up the results of an official inquiry into a celebrated English satanic abuse case and bring down the wrath of local officials. [Wired News]   Rural Legislators Fight for Low Phone Rates - Members of Congress and state legislators are taking on the FCC over a new proposal they say will mean less service at a higher price for rural residents and businesses. [Wired News]   SBC Sues to Overturn Telecom Act Provisions - Baby Bell's lawsuit argues that the law's stringent, targeted tests for allowing long-distance competition make it unconstitutional. [Wired News]   SEC Tackles Stock Tipster - The federal agency settles a civil suit against the owner of a securities newsletter who failed to let investors know he was paid to promote stocks. [Wired News]   Saddled with Spam - Unsolicited commercial email raises serious questions about privacy, time management, and business practices in the digital age. [Wired News]   Sans Drama, Unabom Opener's a Dud - Day One's festivity - the jury selection that focused on potential panelists' opinions on the death penalty - is remarkable for its lack of electricity. [Wired News]   Satanist Sues ISP to Silence Usenet Poster - A former US Army lieutenant colonel who says he's something out of Revelation wants to stop an anonymous correspondent from dredging up a 1980s child-molestation case. [Wired News]   Satanists' Suit Against ISP Dismissed - A San Francisco couple's attempt to sue a San Diego service provider for refusing to act against an anonymous Usenet poster who allegedly harassed them is thrown out, thanks to the Communications Decency Act. [Wired News]   Scans: One Man Against the World - Missouri's attorney general has waged a war against illegal Internet activity. [Wired News]   Scans: Scarlet Letters from Cyberspace - Neighborhood watches are being taken to a global scale as the victim's rights organization, Take Back New York, plans to launch the a website. [Wired News]   Scans: Spinning the FCC - Kevin Werbach joins the agency in an effort to keep one of Washington's most-feared bureaucracies from squelching the Net. [Wired News]   School System Has 'Orwellian' Database Plan - Sensitive information - students' behavioral problems, learning disabilities, family income - may be culled for a megadatabase, and that frightens even school board members. [Wired News]   Sci-Fi Site Operators Take on Spammers - The plaintiffs argue that people's pseudonymous identities, which they say are as important as their corporeal counterparts, shouldn't be appropriated by spammers. [Wired News]   Scouting the Supremes - Todd Lappin gives a thumbnail sketch of the coming CDA Appeal and the Court's jurisprudence. [Wired News]   Searching for Humane Execution Machines - Death technology lacks science, experts, and examples. Although society wants the taking of life to be palatable, the state's killing techniques have been left to chance as a result. [Wired News]   Security Experts Bound for Cyberterra Incognita - The Manhattan Cyber Project might be better named Virtual Lewis and Clark as corporate, university, and government officials set out to explore the wilds of private and public network security. [Wired News]   Senate Again Tries to Wrest Crypto from Clinton - A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers resurrects Pro-CODE, and says no to Clinton's key recovery policy. [Wired News]   Senate Approves FCC Trio - Three panelists to the communications agency are OK'd, and a vote on chairman-designate William Kennard is in the offing. Also: The ACLU to challenge Bakersfield, California, library Net filtering. ... New international meetings on domain names and Internet governance are planned. [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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