Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Boston Common Sense - Jon Katz continues his book tour and finds radio callers in Boston are asking all the right questions. [Wired News]   Breaking the Crypto Barrier - As the Senate ties itself to the Clinton administration's crypto-export limits, the rapid unauthorized export of a strong new encryption product suggests how futile the trade limits are. [Wired News]   Brief Filed in Child-Porn Law Appeal - Free-speech advocates seek to overturn a law that makes it a crime to publish or transmit images that purport to portray children involved in sexual acts. [Wired News]   Britain Wants Tight Rein on Crypto Keys - The British government follows in the footsteps of the United States and France in proposing an encryption policy that would all but force the use of government-licensed trusted third parties. [Wired News]   Broadcasters Balk at Murdoch Copyright Bid - Local TV affiliates join cable companies in opposition to the media emperor's effort to create a special copyright exception for satellite TV service. [Wired News]   Broadcasters Vow Speed-Up on Digital TV - The TV trade group, in the midst of a battle with the FCC chief over how quickly to begin digital broadcasts, softens its go-slow stance. [Wired News]   Broadcasters, Two Words: He's B-a-a-c-k - Newton Minow, who hung the "vast wasteland" tag on the networks, appears to be in line to be the White House point man on public-service rules for digital TV. [Wired News]   Broadcasters: Keep Rivals off Policy Panel - The industry has told the White House that it wants to keep potential competitors, like the computer industry, from helping set TV public-service rules. [Wired News]   Brouhaha Erupts at Book Signing - Jon Katz visits Princeton with an idyllic image of the Ivy League. What he finds instead is some poisonous people itching to attack the author and each other. [Wired News]   Build a Cell Tower, Fund a Spy - One lawmaker has come up with a way to fund the FBI's wiretapping program and to jack schools into the Net: Lease federal lands to phone companies building wireless towers. [Wired News]   Building a Beach Where Everyone Can Surf - The World Wide Web Consortium announces an effort to make the Web a disabled-friendly place. [Wired News]   CDA Author in Bid for FCC Post - Christopher McLean, who drafted the Net decency law the Supreme Court is now considering, is aiming for a seat on the nation's most powerful telecommunications agency. [Wired News]   CDA Challengers Take Appeal to High Court - Briefs filed Thursday outline why the Supreme Court should throw out the Communications Decency Act. [Wired News]   CDA Fate? The Un-Justices Have Already Ruled - Bill, Antonin, and the rest of the Supremes can take it easy - a law prof and his students have written an opinion on the Net decency law. [Wired News]   CDA Struck Down - The US Supreme Court votes 7-2 to uphold a historic appeals ruling that the Communications Decency Act trampled on First Amendment rights. [Wired News]   CDA Victors Celebrate with an Eye on Act II - The coalition of civil and Internet liberties groups that beat back the Communications Decency Act say its important that the effort to protect children from online smut focus on education and providing good filtering tools. [Wired News]   CDA Victory Rally Cheers Free Speech - Hours after the anti-CDA decision was handed down, activists and supporters gathered to celebrate. [Wired News]   CDA: From Conception to Supreme Court - A timeline tracing the history of the Communications Decency Act from the mind of Senator James Exon to the cramped courtroom of the nation's highest court. [Wired News]   Cable's Real Competition Battle Is Within - A struggle between Cablevision, an industry giant, and a Boston start-up trying to start a new class of service, shows how tough the task of creating competition really is. [Wired News]   California Bill Aimed at Kid Seduction on Net - Civil and cyberlibertarians are unlikely to oppose it, saying it's probably not unconstitutional, just redundant. [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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