Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   V-Chip Redux? - According to Jon Katz, the technology that the president loves has always been both a fraud and a joke. [Wired News]   V-One Granted Crypto Export sans Key Escrow - In a bow to emerging market realities, the Commerce Department approves the export of an encryption product that keeps the keys to coded data in the owner's hands. [Wired News]   Valenti Moves From PG to IP - He made his mark on American culture with the movie ratings system, and now he's horning in on intellectual-property rights protection. [Wired News]   Vietnam Net Crackdown Hints at Telecom Struggle - New rules that ban most people from gaining Net access or owning satellite dishes are seen as part political, part long-term play for control of the nation's telecom industry. [Wired News]   Vietnam to Police Intellectual Pirates - Hanoi, seeking to win trust of potential foreign investors and clear obstacles to developing high-tech industries, agrees to move against intellectual-property bandits. [Wired News]   Virginia County Restricts Net Access in Libraries - All computers will be equipped with blocking software, with no provision to turn it off for adults. Patrons under 18 must have a note from their mom or dad to access the Net. [Wired News]   Virginia: Professors Don't Really Need Net - The state says a law that bans state employees from viewing potentially indecent online material doesn't violate academic freedom, claiming the Net is useful, but not necessary, for research. [Wired News]   Virginians Fight Library Nannyware - The imposition of restrictive software on Net terminals "puts adults on the same level as children," says a member of a citizens group that filed a freedom-of-speech suit in federal court. [Wired News]   Virginians Weigh Library Net-Blocking Suit - The constitutionality of Loudoun County's new library Net access rules requiring blocking for all patrons and parental permission for people under 18 is questioned by a citizens group. [Wired News]   Visionless in Seattle - The Gates Summit was a triumph not of technology, but of public relations. Its real message - unintended - was one of irony. [Wired News]   Vox PopAOLi - Democrats in Congress feuded with Republicans last week over money to help disaster victims. They hit on the idea of what they no doubt believed was a brave experiment in new politics: They spent all night in an AOL chat room. Well, it was brave. [Wired News]   Wave of Support for Defiant Texas ISP - A 100-customer West Texas service provider gets worldwide attention and backing for fighting state officials' attempt to get information on a notorious group of subscribers. [Wired News]   Web Anglais? Non, S'il Vous Plait - A Canadian Web site owner runs up against a Quebec language law that requires that content in all media be available in French as well as English. Beyond the inconvenience for one site, the case raises questions about trying to enforce linguistic purity in an age of globalization. [Wired News]   Web Piracy Dispute Turns on Free Content - One issue in a suit by a legal database publisher against a rival is plain theft. Underlying that is a struggle over how to make content available free of charge. [Wired News]   Web Pyramid Investors to Get Payment - A company will pay up to US$5 million under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. [Wired News]   Web Sites Foil Canada's Election Poll Ban - In the first national test of a federal law prohibiting publication of opinion polls just before elections, Canada's election board discovers an unpluggable leak in cyberspace. [Wired News]   Web Watchers Track, Trip Up Parolees - A New York anti-crime group's Web site reports the parole status of violent prisoners - but civil liberties groups say the data lacks depth. [Wired News]   What Constitutes a Technotragedy? - Technotragedies are caused by events that are not immediately clear or comprehensible, involving technology with often unknown capabilities. They tap into our propensity toward paranoia and fuel our lust for conspiracy. [Wired News]   What's a Revolution When No One's Listening? - It was more than just 'something to do with white guys and cable stations.' But you wouldn't have known it by the non-reaction reaction alternative journalists and progressive thinkers elicited in their anti-corporate media march. [Wired News]   When Information Doesn't Know Its Place - Public-interest advocates are awaiting a court appeal in their fight to get the US Information Agency to make public a "secret" URL. [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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