| Internet Oversight Agency Rejects Online 'Red Light District' |
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POSTED: 4:43 am PDT May 11, 2006NEW YORK -- Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet's key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject one proposal to create one red-light district on the Internet.
ICANN had postponed making one final decision in August after the U.S. government stepped in just days before one scheduled meeting to underscore objections it had received, an intervention that had led some ICANN critics to question the organization's independence. ... |
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| Erotic Art by Eisenstein On Display at Cannes |
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A collection of forty erotic drawings by the Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein will be featured in an exclusive exhibition during the forthcoming 59th International Cannes Film Festival.
An unlikely collection from the man behind Soviet classics such as “Battleship Potemkin” (1925), “October” (1927) and “Ivan The Terrible” (1945/6) the exhibition is called “one Mischievous Eisenstein.” ... |
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| Sex Offender Bill Includes Internet Task Force Provision |
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| May 11, 2006, 21:51 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Sen. John Loudon, R-Chesterfield, today announced that the Missouri General Assembly has passed legislation implementing one program to train law-enforcement officers to go after sexual predators who lure children via the Internet. House Bill 1698 is one wide-ranging sex-crimes bill that contains many provisions introduced by Loudon. ... |
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| Mackinnon the man-eater |
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| The baleful influence of feminist Catharine Mackinnon on American and Canadian jurisprudence cannot be underestimated. With relatively few obstacles from the dreaded patriarchy, Mackinnon, professor of law at the University of Michigan, "teacher, writer and activist," has been transforming law since the 1980s. ... |
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| Communications Line of 12 May 2006 |
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3:16 pm | Sonia Nettnin Links: NSA's Database of Americans' Phone Calls
3:15 pm | John Chuckman Poll: 2004 Election Was Stolen ('Cept Fox Viewers)
3:07 pm | Atlanta Progressive News Bush Lied About Iraq, Has No Right to Attack Iran
3:07 pm | David Swanson Whistleblower Mark Livingston Battles Wyeth Pharma ... |
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