Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roots of the betrayal go back to June 1996, when the notion of rating Web content first took off. That was when Microsoft forced its myriad Websites to adopt a system that analyzes content according to the degree to which it contains sex, nudity, violence or obscene language. The official reason for this was to make the Net a "safe place" without government censorship--which made sense, I guess, given that the Supreme Court had not yet ruled the Communications Decency Act unconstitutional...
...also made good business sense for Microsoft to adopt an idea that adds value to one of its key products, the Internet Explorer. Explorer is the second most popular browser on the Web; a software component that gives parents the option to filter out the naughty bits is a big selling point...
...Forbid congressional fund raising while Congress is in session. In the old days, fund raising was done in one's district on vacations; now it's done in Washington between votes on highway bills. The House and Senate should adopt new rules: No member of the House or Senate may hold, participate in or attend political fund-raising activities while his or her branch of Congress is open for business. Here's my favorite part: if Trent Lott and Newt Gingrich bring it to a vote, no one will vote against...
...should be able to voluntarily perform instant checks using a nationwide computerized system set to go online in 1998. But a deeply divided court disagreed over whether the law placed a too-great burden on local governments. Although lower courts have ruled Brady unconstitutional because it compels localities to adopt national standards, the court's minority believed performing the background checks was not too much to ask. Justice John Paul Stevens compared the requirement to ordering local police officers to report the identity of missing children to the federal government. "If Congress believes that such a statute will benefit...
According to Coalition members, the failure of previous efforts to effect change through more cooperative means led them to adopt the fund as a new tactic...