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Congress's first attempt at banning indecent cyberspeech, the sweeping Communications Decency Act of 1996, was struck down by the Supreme Court. The Child Online Protection Act is a narrower law, focused on commercial websites that don't restrict access to minors. It spares sites from prosecution if they require visitors to provide credit-card numbers or proof, via age-verification programs, that they're adults...
There's not much dispute that children who surf the Web these days can gain access to smut. When a child types the words dollhouse or toys into a typical search engine, the court noted, some of the links retrieved are porn sites. Trouble is, the new law is so broad it would let prosecutors go after socially useful, nonpornographic websites aimed at adults. A site operator who testified that he fears prosecution runs the Sexual Health Network, which provides information about sexuality to the disabled. And the credit-card and age-verification defenses go only so far. Both...
Between 1987 and 1997, half a trillion dollars flowed in from international investors. Initially the money was a godsend. It gave companies access to world-class technology and know-how. But in cities such as Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok, there aren't a whole lot of world-class companies. And as share prices of those rare firms rose, investors poured money into other, less well-run companies. At the height of the boom, in 1996, office space in Bangkok was commanding First World rents; in Jakarta supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell inaugurated a Fashion Cafe...
Just last week long-distance company MCI rolled out local-phone service to compete with Bell Atlantic in New York State, and launched a service, with America Online's CompuServe unit, to offer Internet access to households. "The barriers for who provides what are blurring," says Daniel Reingold, telecom analyst at Merrill Lynch. "Every player needs a full shelf of products...
...series of bold deals, including a joint venture announced last week with the country's No. 1 cable provider, Time Warner (parent company of Time). The deal--which still needs the approval of another Time Warner partner and possibly that of local regulators--would give AT&T exclusive access for 20 years to Time Warner cable systems, which reach 12.6 million subscribers in 33 states. Starting next year, AT&T would provide local-phone service through the same wires that carry cable TV, thus circumventing the regional-Bell local-phone monopolies...