[83246] in Cypherpunks
Re: Censorware Summit Take II, from The Netly News
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Thu Jul 17 13:17:28 1997
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:13:22 -0700
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
> Spooked by the threat of a revised Communications
>Decency Act, high tech firms are seriously backing
>labels for the first time. Joining Clinton in coercing
>Internet users and businesses to label all their web
>pages were Yahoo, Excite, and Lycos. "I threw a
>gauntlet to other search engines in today's meeting
>saying that collectively we should require a rating
>before we index pages," Robert Davis, the president of
>Lycos, told me. Translation: if you don't play ball,
>and label your site, search engines will ignore you.
These suggests that Yahoo, Excite, and Lycos might become tempting targets
of a Net-wide DoS attack until they repent.
--Steve
