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------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:30:42 -0500 To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: House Judiciary committee considers anti-drug linking bill Send reply to: declan@well.com
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.
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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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