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Richard K. Moore (rkmoore@iol.ie)
Wed, 15 Feb 1995 17:07:34 +0000 

Message-Id: <199502151710.RAA08552@GPO.iol.ie>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 17:07:34 +0000
To: cyber-rights@cpsr.org, gii-doc@cpsr.org, cpsr-global@cpsr.org,
From: rkmoore@iol.ie (Richard K. Moore)
Subject: |*>-- CyberRights FAQ :: 15 Feb 95 --<*|


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  | cyber-rights@cpsr.org     FAQ :: 15 Feb 95   - rkmoore@iol.ie |
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          ______________________________________________
         |>*  The Campaign for Rights in Cyberspace  *<|
         |>*                                         *<|
         |>*  Working Group: Computer Professionals  *<|
         |>*    for Social Responsibility (CPSR)     *<|
         |_____________________________________________|

               Answers to Frequently Asked Quesions
                         FAQ: 15 Feb 95


The Cyber Rights Campaign is being managed as a Working Group of CPSR
(Computer Professionals for Social Responsibity, a highly respected public
service organization.  CPSR has been effective in influencing Federal
legislation re/ the social impact of technology.

One purpose of the Campaign is to educate the global public about the
beneficial social/political aspects of the current Internet
group-communications model: to make everyone aware that preservation of
Internet-style communities should be seen as global priority.

A second purpose of the Rights Campaign is to alert the USA and global
communities to the intense telco-funded legislative campaign currently
threatening the Internet's existence:
    o In the short term, the Censorship Bill (S.314) would require Internet
      service providers to snoop on and censor all message traffic: this would
      be devestating to current Internet usage patterns and a fundamental
      denial of freedom of speech, association, and privacy.

    o In the longer term, Newt Gingrinch and the telcos are
      attempting to set up a regulatory framework for a new
      interactive-media infrastructure which would eliminate
      the grass-roots uses of interactive communications, and
      build instead a fully commercialized, 500-channel, mass-media
      marketplace fully as sterile as today's network TV.

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# Working Documents
#
#---> Currently available on request:
    |
    |    o  fwd: PFF's "Magna Carta"
    |    o  "Magna Carta analyzed", rkm
    |    o  "S.314 analysis": ELECTRONIC MESSAGING ASSOCIATION
    |    o  "Declaration of Cyber Rights", rkm
    |    o  thread summary: CR Strategy
    |    o  latest CR progress report
    |    o  CPSR's "NII-Document-Serving-the-Community" (5 parts)
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# Volunteers needed
#
#---> Your chance to make a difference:
    |
    |    o  to create OpEd pieces
    |    o  to place pieces in worldwide media
    |    o  for liaison with other lists and organizations
    |    o  to participate in activist discussion process
    |    o  to broaden the experience-base of our campaign community
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| rkmoore@iol.ie  | Ask to see: {    "Magna Carta analyzed"           }  |
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