LAW AND ETHICS ON THE "NETS"
Looks like more of a push for regulation: Charles Bell thought you all might have something to say about this... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABA SCI/TECH SECTION, IPPP COMMITTEE LAW AND ETHICS ON THE "NETS" December 8, 1994 The John Marshall Law School's Center for Informatics Law, in conjunction with the ABA Section of Science & Technology Committee on Information Practices, Policies, and Privacy, is undertaking a project entitled, "Law and Ethics on the 'Nets'" (LEON). The development of a national information infrastructure and a global electronic network, of which Internet is the backbone, has presented a multitude of legal and ethical problems involving use and abuse of the networks, nationally and worldwide. Almost on a daily basis, news items announce electronic network transmissions constituting hate mail, profanity, vulgarity, obscenity, child pornography, sexual harassment, defamation and invasion of privacy. The violation of intellectual property rights and information system security are also frequent occurrences. National and international discussions consider such questions as what "rules of the road" ought to apply, who can make them, how can they be enforced, and what will be the legal and political relationships between states and nations regarding cyberspace? It is argued that at present the lawless, the intolerant and the disrespectful seem able to pollute the worldwide information stream with little constraint. Certainly, the current state of anarchy in national and global electronic networks cannot continue if the technology is to achieve the remarkable benefits that have been predicted in terms of communications among institutions and individuals, whether government, business or society at large. The purpose of the CIL/S&T project is to promote a dialogue that can lead to recommendations for treating with the many issues at hand. We solicit the participation of the Sci/Tech IPPP Committee (and interested others!) in addressing the foregoing issues. Please send me your expression of interest -- indicating what specific aspects of the various questions you would like to address, and then I'll organize us into some working groups. PLEASE LET ME KNOW YOUR INTERESTS BY JANUARY 9, 1995, SO WE CAN STRUCTURE THE PROJECT AND PROMPTLY GET UNDER WAY. We plan a program on the project for the ABA annual meeting in Chicago next August, and we hope to generate a publication for the Section concerning the project results. George B. Trubow, Professor of Law Director, Center for Informatics Law The John Marshall Law School 315 S. Plymouth Ct. Chicago, IL 60604-3907 Fax: 312-427-8307; Voice: 312-987-1445 E-mail: 7trubow@jmls.edu Marsha Woodbury marsha-w@uiuc.edu U of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign FAX 217-356-7050 Home 217-337-0001 Work 217-244-0780 http://www.cpsr.org/dox/global.html
This is pretty scary, I mean it always sat in the back of my mind that they would attemt to rgulate the net, and to pass legislation and all, but now that it is rearing it's head and looks like there is going to be a push for it, I am actually concerned, to teh point of fear almost. Not a paralyzing fear, but a definite feeling that action is neccesary now to either head it off, or provide for alternative forms of communication on the Net if it does come. Thank goodness the cypherpunks have been working on crypto, it is at least deployed enough now that any attempt to control that would entail drastic measures, like REALLY drastic. I think perhaps we should make a concerted effort to alert eh rest of the net of these happenings, and to tell them to contact their legislators and such to try and stop it, or at least attempt to stop the hystericism that these articles will drum up in congress. Perhaps someone will be kind enough to write "newsletter" or a post to be spread throught usenet and other BBS's and mailing lists(under control, not spamming or anything) that alerts people on what is happening, and what they can do about it. I am afraid I am to inexperienced as a writer of such things, I could do it, but i am sure that others here would do much better jobs of it, and thus influence mroe action from the people on the net. get on your boots fellas, load your guns too. Loks like a war is starting up, or is it a police action 8) i want to know everything http://www.mcs.com/~nesta/home.html i want to be everywhere Nesta's Home Page i want to fuck everyone in the world & i want to do something that matters /-/ a s t e zine
On Tue, 3 Jan 1995, Nesta Stubbs wrote:
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 16:34:22 +0000 From: Nesta Stubbs <nesta@nesta.pr.mcs.net> To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com> Subject: calls for regulation
This is pretty scary, I mean it always sat in the back of my mind that they would attemt to rgulate the net, and to pass legislation and all, but now that it is rearing it's head and looks like there is going to be a push for it, I am actually concerned, to teh point of fear almost.
Let me blow all your horns. Kudos to the exposure. Just goes to support my theory that cypherpunks tend to be way ahead of the rest of the world in predicting political moves. I have little doubt this one will come to a head as well.
i want to know everything http://www.mcs.com/~nesta/home.html i want to be everywhere Nesta's Home Page i want to fuck everyone in the world & i want to do something that matters /-/ a s t e zine
073BB885A786F666 nemo repente fuit turpissimus - potestas scientiae in usu est 6E6D4506F6EDBC17 quaere verum ad infinitum, loquitur sub rosa - wichtig!
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