| From: | Jai Tao <jdfalk@****.CAIS.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | EMail law (barely SR) |
| Date: | Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:21:22 -0400 |
> > 1. Legal protection of electronic mail. Right now this is going through
> > the US court system. Within a couple of years e-mail will somehow be
> > placed under the same protections as other forms of communications.
> > There may be certain requirements of the carriers (ie, some kind of
> > license for carriers), but it will happen, soon.
>
> Does this mean that e-mail is getting regulated by laws and stuff?
>
No, just that some people (most of whom seem to have absolutely
no understanding of the nature of electronic textual communication) think
that Email _should_ be regulated. For the most part, our 'net community
seems to be torn between freedom of speech and stopping advertising; the
legislators have some scary half-formed idea of insurgents and
revolutionaries using the 'net to decide how to undermine the
government. And the major media, being mostly newbies, are undergoing the
same "I got flamed! Something must be done!" mentality that most of us
got over long ago.
I won't get much more into it here -- if you're interested, check
out the following USENET newsgroups:
news.admin.policy
news.future
alt.politics.datahighway
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