[2632] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Laws)
Tue Mar 24 14:38:31 1992
Date: Tue 24 Mar 92 11:37:42-PST
From: Ken Laws <LAWS@ai.sri.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
I don't know the source of NSF's supposed legal/policy basis for
the AUP. If it derives from the NSF charter, though, Congress
doesn't have the power [in any simple way] to change it. NSF's
authority derives from the Executive branch, and the only influence
that Congress has is through its control of the budget.
Concerning political advertising: it's been a while since I read
the AUP, but I recall that it made no mention of political advocacy.
This surprised me, as "everyone knew" that political use of the
net was a no-no. My guess is that the political prohibition was
a DARPA policy only, but that its omission from the AUP was never
publicized.
-- Ken
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