[11916] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
EFF's Weitzner in America On-Line NII Virtual Debate, 4/24/94
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stanton McCandlish)
Sun Apr 24 22:39:07 1994
From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
To: comp-org-eff-talk@cs.utexas.edu (eff.talk), eff-activists@eff.org,
simona@panix.com, thesegroups@tic.com
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 20:04:09 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: alt-politics-datahighway@cs.utexas.edu (alt.politics.datahighway),
com-priv@psi.com
AMERICA ONLINE AND CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY GO ON-LINE
FOR COMMUNICATIONS ROUNDTABLE
America Online and Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a unique news
event on April 25, when four experts representing key sectors of the
communications industry and consumers will engage in an "on-line" debate
about Congress' rewrite of the nation's communications laws.
America Online's 700,000 members will be able to listen to - and
participate in - the roundtable discussion in the Center Stage conference
room. Guests include Steve Effros, president of the Cable and
Telecommunications Association, Gerald Kovach, senior vice president for
external affairs for MCI Corp., Daniel J. Weitzner, senior staff counsel
for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Ed Young, vice president federal
regulatory and associate general counsel for Bell Atlantic Corp.
The roundtable will be moderated by Mike Mills, science and technology
reporter for Congressional Quarterly's Weekly Report.
The one-hour discussion will be carried live on Monday, April 25, 1994,
starting at 4:00 p.m. eastern time on America Online. Subscribers can
participate in the forum by sending questions to the moderator. A full
transcript of the discussion will be available to America Online subscribers
after the event, and an edited version will be published in the May 14, 1994
special issue of CQ's Weekly Report focusing on telecommunications policy.
Copies of the magazine may be ordered in advance by calling 1-800-854-9043.
Congress is embarking on the most sweeping rewrite of communications laws
since 1934, and the stakes for industry and consumers are enormous.
Participants will discuss, among other topics, the changes consumers can
expect in the way they receive telephone, cable and other services; how
public interest needs will be met by an increasingly competitive
marketplace; and how various interest groups are influencing the
legislation before Congress.
--
Stanton McCandlish * mech@eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist
"In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich
Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of
phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps.
When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it."
- Philip Elmer-Dewitt, "Who Should Keep the Keys", TIME, Mar. 14 1994
