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Legal and Ethical Oddities
Legal and Ethical Oddities
- Almost everybody in California
is now a Felon!
(harassment law?)
- Court on TV.
- Prison,
crimes, and unabombers.
Also,
rape.
Oh, and
lawsuits.
And worst/wierdest of all: a lawsuit against people
selling a magazine that had
a
story about prison rape.
- Rush Limbaugh
- Smut on the 'net?
Start
here.
There are other players, too. See
Reid's
aside and Post's preface
(look under archives, #725, or see
here).
Note that Reid is listed by Rimm as a source of data
(find `Reid' under
here)
and Post is a visiting law prof. at Georgetown.
Time magazine has it's head in a hole.
- Bill to
make service providers babysit their users,
at your expense (S.314).
- Electronic mail and U.S. Politics
- The home page
of the Canter and Segal operation.
They're the folks who, like Robert Morris, with the internet
worm, pointed out that if you provide a free lunch mechanism,
people will use it.
Now it's our job to make sure we do something about it
(evolution in action, folks!).
This
also used to point at something. I think it's been removed,
which means it can't be cached,
so if you keep trying it you'll just chew up resources.
-
Censored
stories (courtesy
Danfuzz.
- Chomsky
- Church o' $cientology
tries to shut down USElessNET.
More on the same.
Yet
more
about it(!).
-
Copyright
information.
- FAIR
- Office of Human Radiation Experiments home page
(via psl@acm.org via gnu@toad.com).
- Edgar Knapp,
a Purdue assistant professor of CS, in
prison
for murder.
- Electronic privacy
(EPIC)
-
Hand Jobs Across America.
- The
LaMacchia
trial over whether a system operator (electronic "common
carrier") operator is legally required to censor users actions.
- Legislation Online
courtesey of the UW.
- The
McLibel
trial. You can also try
here
for more, though overlapping, info.
-
Politics of meat.
- See what
information about yourself
you're telling everybody when you use the web.
- Stormfront
the White Nationalist Reseource Page, not to be confused
with
National Alliance
(the stormfront resource page?).
Both annoying white supremicist groups
getting their free speech.
- Telephone solicitation laws may
The Network Observer
- What you do for a living.
- Zimmerman's PGP suit --
is export control domestic cencorship?
See also the
Zimmerman Legal Defense Fund
(or zldf@clark.net)
-
Book burning,
and a
summary and some other info
about the site.
- Anti-porn
crusade
pardo@cs.washington.edu