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Top 25 Technology DriversThe Roadkill Awards: For Standing In The Way Of Technology |
| The French Police:
For arresting and jailing execs from FranceNet and WorldNet on pornography charges. No nation has the right to regulate content on the Internet. Technological solutions, such as the Platform for Internet Content Selection spec, are the right answer.
The America's Carriers Telecommunications Association (ACTA): For petitioning the FCC to regulate Internet telephones. By taking a protectionist attitude toward this still-emerging technology, we believe ACTA may be spitting into a tsunami. If Internet telephony takes off, much of today's regulatory environment will be washed away. The National Security Agency and the Clinton Administration: For insisting on public key third-party escrow for encryption. We advocate a policy allowing either international third-party or international self-escrow at the user's option. Crime organizations won't submit to third-party escrow, and if governments want to eavesdrop on business, due process should be followed. Bob Dole, Sen. James Exon: For failing to recognize that morality can't be legislated on the Internet, given the Net's complexity both technologically and geopolitically. Responsibility for policing content lies with parents , aided by rating software. Exon realized content providers should not be held liable for content, but Dole's legislation did not. |
| Totalitarian Regimes, such as China and Singapore: For requiring Internet users or ISPs to register with the police, especially when it comes to carrying sensitive content. |
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Updated August 26, 1996
