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"Censorship
Wins Out: Many journalists and activists have
brought their struggle for democracy to the Internet but plenty of nasty
regimes have learned to control the Net for their purposes." ... "Despite
the theory behind the Internet's built-in anti-censorship architecture,
official control is actually very possible in practice, especially as the
regimes run the telecommunications infrastructure when the country comes
online." -By Andrew Stroehlein -OJR.org
20020401
OPINION
- "Most
Far-Reaching Gag Order In 1st Amend. History? Hentoff:
Press Must Address Book-Reading Threat." ... "John Ashcroft's war on terrorism
includes the most far-reaching gag order in First Amendment history --preventing
the press from reporting on the FBI's seizure of the lists of books bought
or borrowed in bookstores and libraries by noncitizens and citizens suspected
of terrorist activities." -By Nat Hentoff -EditorAndPublisher.com
"Bush
Clamping Down On Presidential Papers: Incumbent
Could Lock Up Predecessor's Records." ... "Historians
and others who have seen the proposed order called it unprecedented and
said it would turn the 1978 Presidential Records Act on its head by allowing
such materials to be kept secret "in perpetuity."" -By George Lardner Jr.
-WashingtonPost
"Separating
Students From Smut" The Hooks
Independent School District uses "a proxy server to log the Web habits
of each student. "We know where every child has gone and for how long they've
been there," said Mychele Hughes, director of information services" -By
Katie Dean -Wired