Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   All Nude! All Free! ... Yeah, Right - The Federal Trade Commission gets a court order to shut down adult Web sites that sucker unsuspecting surfers into outrageous long-distance rates. [Wired News]   AlterNIC Activist Going to Court - Eugene Kashpureff's redirection of InterNIC traffic has earned him a US arrest warrant and a stay in a Toronto jail that's at five days and counting. [Wired News]   AlterNIC's Kashpureff Still Behind Bars - A Toronto hearing on deporting the domain-name guerrilla to the United States to face federal wire-fraud charges is continued until Monday. [Wired News]   Ameritech Has Long-Term Cable Game Plan - In complaining to the FCC that it can't get fair access to cable programming quickly enough to battle more established rivals, the telco is just making the first move in an involved game. [Wired News]   Ameritech's Expansion Stumbles - For Now - The first Baby Bell to seek long-distance carrier status has seen its application invalidated by regulators. But it's not down for the count. [Wired News]   Amid Cycling Uproar, Evidence Goes Online - San Francisco media and politicians are still roiling over last month's chaotic Critical Mass ride. Exhibits for cyclists' case against police have their own home on the Web. [Wired News]   An Attempt to Hobble House Crypto Bill - Representative Benjamin Gilman, a New York Republican, doesn't like legislation that would loosen national encryption policy. Having lost a vote earlier this week, he is circulating an amendment that would nullify the bill's most important provisions. [Wired News]   An Ex-Mayor Joins the Netizenry - Sharon Pratt Kelly of Washington, DC, launches a site she hopes will help empower fellow citizens and help her campaign for a constitutional convention to create a more direct democracy. [Wired News]   Annoy.com Jumps into CDA Fray - Annoy.com and the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court supporting a challenge to the Communications Decency Act. [Wired News]   Annoy.com May Get Its Way in Court - The site that offers users the chance to send anonymous, goading messages to politicians may have convinced a panel of judges of the need to quickly decide whether the site violates an obscure provision of the CDA, and whether that provision is constitutional. [Wired News]   Annoy.com Still Waits for Day in Court - The in-your-face Web site, bent on violating the Communications Decency Act by striking an irritatingly annoying attitude, won't get a hearing until after the Supreme Court ruling. [Wired News]   Annoyed in Maryland? Hold Your Email - Maryland lawmakers try to criminalize sending embarrassing and abusive email. But does their language offend the spirit of the Constitution? [Wired News]   Another Domain-Registration Battle Breaks Out - The National Science Foundation injects some new turbulence into the worldwide debate over the Internet name-game by announcing it won't renew its contract with Network Solutions. [Wired News]   Another View of the Net: New Minority Agora - Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Irving says that the decline in minority-owned radio and TV stations is driving young African Americans toward a new place where they can hear and be heard: The Internet. [Wired News]   Anti-MS Gadfly Hits Browser Campaign - NetAction, trying to spur more government antitrust examination of Redmond, says ISPs are helping squeeze out Netscape. [Wired News]   Antiporn Pusher - She's poised, articulate, and media savvy - and she wants to censor what's on the Net. Meet Cathy Cleaver, in Scans. [Wired News]   Arguments Heard in Encryption Challenge - Karn v. Department of State will decide whether code is protected speech. [Wired News]   Army's Computer Corps Meets 'Death' in Desert - A dramatic increase in friendly fire mistakes marks a US Army exercise that tested the capabilities of its next-generation fighting force. [Wired News]   As Britain Withdraws, New Royalty Reigns - As the whole world watched the end of a century and a half of British imperial glory, a crowd that wanted no part of the historic scene gathered to watch a coronation. Also, Wired News' complete series on Hong Kong's transition. [Wired News]   At Play in the Fields of the Web - Like many new and ascending cultures, the Web is marked by arrogance and myopia, and for good reason. [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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