Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Clinton's 'Next Generation' Push for a Better Net - The reception in Congress to Clinton's push to develop a faster, less crowded Internet may be cool, at best. [Wired News]   Clinton's FTC Nominee May Scrutinize Internet - Controversies, like the scuffle over AOL's pricing strategies, will consume the FTC this coming year. [Wired News]   Clinton, Gore Want to 'Empower' Parents - The White House will announce a set of proposals, including the wider use and implementation of filtering software and ratings systems, intended to give parents more control over what their kids encounter online. [Wired News]   Close Encounter at ABC News HQ - Jon Katz sights Roone Arledge. Life will never be the same. [Wired News]   Commerce Department Forming Crypto Panel - A committee made up principally of business officials will advise Commerce Secretary William Daley on matters such as encryption export. [Wired News]   Commerce Department Taking Domain Comment - Amid continuing criticism of an international plan to create new domain-name space, the Clinton administration solicits input on the most hotly debated issues. [Wired News]   Compaq Exec: Microsoft Twisted Firm's Arm - In a statement to Justice Department lawyers last week, the company's director of software procurement said the software giant issued threats over the use of a browser icon. [Wired News]   Computer Donors Get a Tax Break - A provision in new federal tax law gives commercial donors substantial deductions for used machines. [Wired News]   Computers-for-Schools Foundation in Trouble - A political snare grabs a private foundation that works with a California program in which prison inmates learn to refurbish computers for the state's schools. [Wired News]   Confab Seeks Cure for Journalism's 'Crisis' - Adopting a mellower whine, a gathering of alternative journalists, progressive scholars, and media-makers hopes to dispel the perception of media evil. [Wired News]   Congress Does the Net - A quick look at major Net-centric and techno issues the people's representatives will wrestle over this fall. [Wired News]   Congress Gets Reality Check on Net Security - Computer security gurus tell the House subcommittee on technology that the government should pump more funds into security issues. [Wired News]   Congress Grapples with Global Copyright Pacts - Nine months after they were signed in Geneva, two world treaties that aim to resolve digital age copyright problems finally get hearings in Congress. [Wired News]   Congress May Fumble Computer Security Fix - Experts say it's time to address the risks surrounding computer security, but fear Congress may offer a cure worse than the disease. [Wired News]   Congress May Legislate Domain Names - A House panel is waiting for a Commerce roadmap before it begins drafting a bill to prevent non-US registration of top-level Net names. [Wired News]   Congress Pressed to Put More Data Online - A varied crew of Net activists, good-government types, journalists, and liberal and conservative politicos says the House and Senate are holding out on putting some of their best info on the Net. [Wired News]   Congress to TV Execs: New Ratings Now or Else - Congressional heavy-hitters pressure the TV industry to start using labels that specifically indicate the nature of potentially objectionable content. The stumbling block is over labels for shows aimed at the youngest kids. [Wired News]   Congressman Offers Bill to Protect Online Privacy - US Representative Bruce Vento, D-Minnesota, wants to prevent ISPs from selling information about their customers without prior permission. [Wired News]   Controversial Basque Web Site Resurfaces - Virtually shut down after a deluge of protest spams, a journal that supports Basque independence shows up on an activist server in England. [Wired News]   Cool Reception for McCain-Kerrey Crypto Bill - Legislation that to date has had smooth sailing ran into rough waters when virtually no one at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing offered wholehearted support. [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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