Thursday, June 27, 2002

CrimeWatch, WSJ-style [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 10:24:01 PM

Karl Rove, Adding to His To-Do List (washingtonpost.com) [Daypop Top 40] 10:07:45 PM

Lawmaker: Let studios hack P2P nets. A California congressman is preparing a bill that would protect copyright owners, allowing them to use high-tech techniques to stop file traders. [CNET News.com] Oh, yeah, this is a good idea. Where will we draw the line, hmmmm? 9:53:14 PM

Forbes: Beware the Cyber Cops. Jonathan Zittrain. We should resist the notion that such heightened scrutiny, especially if inconspicuous to the public, carries no significant cost to law-abiding citizens. Consider the range of proposals for unobtrusive but sweeping Internet monitoring. [Tomalak's Realm] 9:41:26 PM

Parking Liberty at the High-School Door [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 9:38:38 PM

The gang that couldn't loot straight. The fall of the '90s bubble's icons shows just why Americans would be crazy to trust their retirement money to the stock market. [Salon.com] 9:36:51 PM

House bans "morphed" child pornography. The 413-to-8 vote aims to circumvent a recent Supreme Court decision that nixed an earlier ban on computer-generated sex images of minors. The Senate introduced a similar proposal. [CNET News.com] 8:31:50 PM

Foxes guarding the chicken coop. President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place. [Salon.com] 8:29:10 PM

"WorldCom covered up $4 BILLION of debt," [Daypop Top 40] 8:27:41 PM

"U.S. Pledge of Allegiance Declared Unconstitutional " [Daypop Top 40] What's amazing about this isn't the ruling, it's that it took 45 years. Any time Congress is voting on adding the word "God" to anything, it's probably an indication there's a little less separation of church and state than there should be... 8:26:36 PM

House Refines Virtual Porn Ban. Two months after the Supreme Court rules a child porn prevention measure is unconstitutional, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approves a new act. By Julia Scheeres. [Wired News] 8:03:43 AM

"The Age of Acquiescence" [Daypop Top 40] 8:02:57 AM

"Confidence in war on terror wanes" [Daypop Top 40] 8:01:54 AM

"Cartoonists feeling patriotic gag" [Daypop Top 40] 8:01:17 AM

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