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...follow Bob Dole's lead and urge on-line companies to voluntarily regulate their content, this is fine. Even laws requiring the software equivalent of the V-chip would be acceptable, because they would in no way restrict what could legally be posted on the Internet, but rather would bolster the ability of parents to privately and individually control what their children...
...payroll taxes. The Clinton Administration expected Medicare to remain solvent until 2002, and has staunchly resisted the changes GOP leaders have demanded to make the system financially sound. The troubling new figures should strengthen the GOP hand. While current budget proposals by both President Clinton and Congressional Republicans could bolster Medicare finances through 2011, McAllister says, "The real problem is that right after that, the Boomers hit." Without significant changes, the Medicare system is not prepared for the strain of providing benefits to the huge Baby Boom generation. For one thing, the payroll taxes of the too-small generation...
...spectrum handout is a classic example of how government subsidies live on after their rationales have expired. The giveaway was originally conceived by the Reagan Administration as a way to bolster American firms in a race with Japan to develop a new technology called High-Definition Television. Then hdtv was eclipsed by so-called digital television, which promises extra-sharp pictures and CD-quality sound. The Japanese are barely in the digital race, but the fcc decided to ladle out the frequencies anyway...
Thus, while the Prodigy decision may bolster the attempt of the indecency bill backers to hold Internet providers responsible for their users' postings, the Scientology case upholds the broader and more important theme that it's wrong to use the law to restrict freedom of expression. (In cases where neither libel nor intellectual property violations have truly been committed...
...Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of Westinghouse Inc. and CBS, creating the nation's largest broadcaster. "The merger helps CBS because it gives them a large number of new affiliates, which should bolster them as a network" says senior media writer Richard Zoglin. (Westinghouse/CBS owns 16 TV stations reaching 32 percent of the country, and 39 radio stations.) "It doesn't help them in terms of broad-based communications," Zoglin adds, "because Westinghouse, like CBS, doesn't have extensive cable holdings. Westinghouse is a long-established corporation with a reputation for tightfisted management, which could mean some job layoffs...