This should be a good half-day conference, with some interesting speakers. I'll probably show up for Charles Platt's keynote. Naturally, it's being held in the building's Hayek Auditorium. Hayek has some relevance to cypherpunks, I think -- he warned early on that the loss of economic freedom inevitably leads to the loss of civil liberties as well. He also described the phenomenon of spontaneous order (admittedly in the context of markets), which speaks to the way the Net has ordered itself. -Declan // declan@eff.org // I do not represent the EFF // declan@well.com // ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:05:44 -0400 From: Solveig Bernstein <sberns@cato.org> To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu Please redistribute this conference announcement freely: ********************************************************* Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet The Cato Institute cordially invites you to a morning conference and luncheon Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet Friday, September 20, 1996 8:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. The Cato Institute's F.A. Hayek Auditorium 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC The Internet promises users unprecedented individual control over information. It is at once a tool for universal communication, a new form of media, and a new way of doing business. But it is also a challenge to lawmakers and regulators. Existing laws cannot easily be applied to the Internet and appear doomed to failure. Do we need a new set of laws or will voluntary private action ensure order on the information superhighway? Cato's Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet conference will bring together leading authorities on law, regulation, and technology to discuss the problems of adapting existing law to the Internet and to explore private alternatives to regulation. Can private ordering consistent with individual freedom forestall a government backlash against perceived Internet chaos? The cost of this conference is $25.00. Registration Wintergarden 8:30 8:35 a.m. Lawrence Gasman Welcoming Remarks Director, Telecommunications and Technology Studies, Cato Institute 8:35 9:20 a.m. JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES David Post;Collective Action in Cyberspace" Georgetown University Law Center Dan Burk Federalism without Borders; Seton Hall University School of Law 9:20 10:30 a.m. FEDERAL REGULATORY ISSUES Robert Crandall; Rate Regulation and Arbitrage; Internet Telephony; Brookings Institution Trotter Hardy;Congress and Digital Copyright: Avoiding a Balancing Act;William & Mary College of Law Lori Fena;Security of Personal and Corporate Information Online: Moving toward Industry Self Regulation; Electronic Frontier Foundation 10:30 10:45 a.m. Break 10:45 11:55 a.m. FREE SPEECH IN CYBERSPACE Danny Weitzner; The Empowered User: Internet Technology Tools for Limiting Access to Unwanted Material; Protecting Privacy; Center for Democracy and Technology Eugene Volokh;Private Online Speech Controls: Censorship, Constitutionally Protected Editing, or Both? University of California at Los Angeles School of Law David Sobel;Prospects of the CDA in the Supreme Court; Electronic Privacy Information Center 12:30 p.m. Keynote Address - Charles Platt; Net Futures: Scary and Sublime; Author, Free Zone, The Silicone Man, Contributing Writer, Wired Magazine 12:30 p.m. Luncheon News media please call Robin Hulsey at (202) 789 5293. To Register, please e-mail Scott Wallis at swallis@cato.org, or vist our web site at //www:cato.org. ********************************************************************** Solveig Bernstein, Esq. (202) 789-5274 (202) 842-3490 (fax) Assistant Director of Telecommunications & Technology Studies Cato Institute 1000 Mass. Ave. NW Washington, DC 20001