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There was nothing very special about the message that made Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel the most hated couple in cyberspace. It was a relatively straightforward advertisement offering the services of their husband-and-wife law firm to aliens interested in getting a green card -- proof of permanent-resident status in the U.S. The computer that sent the message was a perfectly ordinary one as well: an IBM-type PC parked in the spare bedroom of their ranch-style house in Scottsdale, Arizona. But on the Internet, even a single computer can wield enormous power, and last April this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Soul of the Internet | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...commercial interests eager to make money on it, by veteran users who want to protect it, by governments that want to control it, by pornographers who want to exploit its freedoms, by parents and teachers who want to make it a safe and useful place for kids. The Canter-and-Siegel affair, say Net observers, was just the opening skirmish in the larger battle for the soul of the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Soul of the Internet | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...many Internet regulars, it was a provocation so bald-faced and deliberate that it could not be ignored. And all over the world, Internet users responded spontaneously by answering the Spammers with angry electronic- mail messages called "flames." Within minutes, the flames -- filled with unprintable epithets -- began pouring into Canter and Siegel's Internet mailbox, first by the dozen, then by the hundreds, then by the thousands. A user in Australia sent in 1,000 phony requests for information every day. A 16-year-old threatened to visit the couple's "crappy law firm" and "burn it to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Soul of the Internet | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...Canter and Siegel refused to give ground. They declared the experiment "a tremendous success," claiming to have generated $100,000 in new business. They threatened to sue Internet Direct for cutting them off from even more business (although the suit never materialized). And they gave an unrepentant interview to the New York Times. "We will definitely advertise on the Internet again," they promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Soul of the Internet | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

Moderated by HPU member Amelia S. Canter ’07, the debate opened with five-minute statements from each side. Canter then alternated questions between the two teams. Either was allowed either a one-minute response or a rebuttal to each question. The debate lasted an hour...

Author: By Raymond L. Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Views Clash in Abortion Debate | 3/4/2005 | See Source »

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