[12296] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Newsflash - new NII public interest bill on the way
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stanton McCandlish)
Sat May 14 19:01:13 1994
From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
To: comp-org-eff-talk@cs.utexas.edu (eff.talk), eff-activists@eff.org
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 21:14:59 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com,
alt-politics-datahighway@cs.utexas.edu (alt.politics.datahighway),
comp-org-cpsr-talk@cs.utexas.edu (comp.org.cpsr.talk),
thesegroups@tic.com, alt-activism@cs.utexas.edu (alt.activism),
alt-activism-d@cs.utexas.edu (alt.activism.d), niiregional-l@rain.org,
jwarren@well.sf.ca.us, nii_agenda@civicnet.org,
telcomreg@realy.adp.wisc.edu
According to Washington Telecom Week, Sen. Inouye will introduce, this week
or early next, a new bill to set aside "reserve capacity on the National
Information Infrastructure (NII) for use by non-profit or public
institutions [incl. NGOs, schools, local govt., civic organizations, etc.]
at little or no cost". The bill is expected to be "married to"
Holling's S1822, the Senate counterpart of the Markey/Fields HR3636.
Sounds interesting, though this bill, like S1822 and HR3636 seems set up,
for some reason, so that the FCC should be involved in this process, which
may turn out to be a hazardous proposition, given the censorious and
iron-fisted behaviour of FCC in the past and present.
More info expected by next week.
--
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
