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Nobody Shrugged - When libertarians convene in Silicon Valley to discuss the impact of excessive government on high technology, a lively time can be expected. And the Cato Institue delivers. By Ayla Jean Yackley. [Wired News]

On Tech Policy, Time to Walk the Walk - Many technology issues are perfect for a politician trying to get voters to see a rosy digital future - soft, fuzzy, easy to support. The bruising fight over US encryption policy, though, will test Gore's ability to mediate seemingly intractable foes. [Wired News]

Online Hate Has Its Limits - The Danish courts sidestep the problem of trying to control speech routed through offshore Internet service providers, opting instead to use local laws to go after hate speech. By Steven Snedker. [Wired News]

Open Deposition Still on Track - Judge Jackson refuses to set aside his ruling to allow journalists to sit in on Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' testimony, but says both sides will have to agree on logistics. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]

Outage Slows Access to Report - A train derailment in Georgia severs fiber-optic cables, knocking out Internet service on one of the biggest days in Internet history. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]

Panel Debates Online Privacy Issues - A Commerce Department panel weighs the need to protect consumer privacy against the desire to promote Internet business growth. First of two parts. By Ashley Craddock. [Wired News]

Panel Endorses CDA's Daughter - A bill that strongly resembles the so-called Son of CDA moves through a House subcommittee. And the battle between online decency and free speech wears on. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]

Paper Gets AOL Member Name - The Orange County Register obtained the identity behind an AOL screen name by using a relatively simple tactic: the lawsuit and subpoena. Legal experts expect to see more maneuvers like this. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]

Parliamentary Procedure - Utter the word "encryption" to most members of Parliament, and watch as their eyes glaze over and their lower lips tremble. A group of Web activists is determined to help. Mike Bracken reports from London. [Wired News]

Peace Effort Grows From a Database - The US Department of Commerce is trying to use technology and entrepreneurship to move toward a goal diplomats and politicians have found elusive: peace in the Mideast. [Wired News]

Pentagon Deflects Web Assault - It was applet against applet yesterday, as a political protest targeted the Defense Department's Web servers. Both sides claimed victory. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]

Planned Parenthood Wins Round in Domain Tiff - A federal judge rules that an anti-abortion activist cannot use plannedparenthood.com for his Web site because of the "significant likelihood" that people seeking the pro-choice family planning organization would be confused. [Wired News]

Players Convene for Feds vs. MS - As the antitrust trial of the decade draws near, both the Justice Department and Microsoft are assembling what they expect will be legal dream teams. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]

Policing Privacy - A California sheriff's deputy violated the law to access and pass on information from his department's computer records, an invasion privacy advocates cite as a reason law enforcement officials should not be given the keys to scrambled confidential data. By Mika Belle. [Wired News]

Politician Spams 5 Million Users - A 22-year-old politician who lives with his parents sees no problem with spamming millions of Internet users who couldn't care less about his local Philadelphia election. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]

Politics, Tech Don't Mix ... Yet - Voters are far more concerned with taxes and social security than they are with technology issues. That could be bad news for the industry, if legislators considered friendly to technology get the boot on Election Day. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]

Porn Spammer Nailed - After months of trying, an ISP tracks down an elusive porn spammer and serves him with papers in a US$1 million lawsuit. By Arik Hesseldahl. [Wired News]

Postal Service Eyes .us Domain - The post office is circulating a draft laying out its case for taking over the United States' official top-level Internet domain as a means of accelerating ecommerce. By James Glave. [Wired News]

Power to the People - The impeachment of President Clinton took place despite the largest wave of online activism in history. What happened to the Net's promise of direct democracy? By Jennifer Hattam. [Wired News]

Pretty Poor Privacy - Privacy advocates beat up on ecommerce trade associations during the second day of a Commerce Department summit on Internet privacy. Will technology save the day? By Ashley Craddock. [Wired News]

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