roundtable: Re: This week's "International Internet NewsClips"... (fwd)

roundtable: Re: This week's "International Internet NewsClips"... (fwd)

Re: This week's "International Internet NewsClips"... (fwd)

Jonathan Prince (aa078@seorf.ohiou.edu)
Wed, 28 Jun 1995 13:49:52 -0400 (EDT) 

From: Jonathan Prince <aa078@seorf.ohiou.edu>
Message-Id: <199506281749.NAA07251@seorf.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: This week's "International Internet NewsClips"... (fwd)
To: roundtable@cni.org
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 13:49:52 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950625170528.7798B-100000@access2.digex.net> from "Vigdor Schreibman - FINS" at Jun 28, 95 09:52:33 am


QUICK!  Write some legislation to protect children again biased opinions
on the Internet in the name of the First Amendment!  Our Nation's
Insecurity depends on it!

In all seriousness, sounds to me that the WSJ is preparing the raod for
stronger anti-libel protections on the Net.  If making porn illegal is
unconstitutional (at least in the way Exon and other are trying) and if
they can't sabotage the Net by censoring info on how to build bombs etc,
then they perhaps CAN cripple it via strict anti-libel and slander laws.

That is, of course, if the WSJ doesn't include their "distortion and
debasement of the concept of news" at their own dowjones.com site.

Another random thought, imagine we are still in the middle of the Cold War
and the Internet is as strong as is it is now, what politicians would be
claiming that russian agents are reaching the minds of small children in
American classrooms via their PC'c connected to the Net?

Cant you imagine the TIME magazine front page?

'Cyber-Communism: Mind Control from Afar!'

Sorry for being so off-topic, i just needed to vent.

Jonathan Prince
aa078@seorf.ohiou.edu


> Quote of the decade!
> Vigdor Schreibman
> <fins@access.digex.net>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 12:16:52 -0700
> From: madanmohan rao <rao@igc.apc.org>
> To: online-news@marketplace.com
> Cc: online-newspapers@marketplace.com
> Subject: This week's "International Internet NewsClips"...
> News May Be Distorted And Debased On The Internet
> -------------------------------------------------
>      Though the Internet and other online media may offer new
> avenues for talented journalists and publishers, they have also led
> to "distortion and debasement of the concept of news." Gossip,
> rumour, uninformed speculation, conspiracy theories, press
> releases, and other public relations materials often make up a lot
> of what passes as "news" online. The usual standards of accuracy,
> fairness, and intelligent writing should be adhered to for online
> news just as they are for traditional news.
>                                (Wall Street Journal; June 22, 1995)

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