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- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:11:51 +0100
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Date sent: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:30:42 -0500
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: House Judiciary committee considers anti-drug linking bill
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36209,00.html
Bill Criminalizes Drug Links
by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
3:00 a.m. May. 9, 2000 PDT
Opponents of a bill to restrict drug-related
information online are asking members of the House
Judiciary Committee to reject it at a scheduled
vote Tuesday morning.
The panel is set to consider the Methamphetamine
Anti-Proliferation Act, which makes it a federal
crime to publish or link to information related to
illegal drugs or drug advertising.
"You have all sorts of First
Amendment problems with that,"
said Marv Johnson, legislative
counsel at the American Civil
Liberties Union.
Civil libertarians said the measure
should be rewritten to remove
restrictions on Web publishing and
eliminate a controversial section
that would allow police to conduct
secret searches and seizures.
[...]
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36210,00.html
Real Cybersquatting Really Sucks
Wired News Report
3:00 a.m. May. 9, 2000 PDT
For a company just a few weeks old, Verizon Wireless sure
doesn't take criticism very well.
To thwart anyone from mocking Verizon's wireless service,
a lawyer registered the domain name verizonsucks.com. The
lawyer is with the law firm Arnold and Porter, which
represents Bell Atlantic, the company that launched
Verizon with Vodaphone Airtouch.
So it should be no surprise that Verizon lawyers were not
amused when hacker-zine 2600 Magazine purchased
verizonreallysucks.com.
[...]
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