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Richard Sobel, a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet said Society who organized and moderated the discussion, pointed to legislation proposed by the Clinton administration that would make it easier for police officers to obtain patients' medical records, sometimes without their consent, as an example of the kind of infringement on personal privacy that could accompany the advent of information technology in medicine...
While critics like Noam Chomsky have labeled Paglia as reactionary, Paglia's position on social issues give them pause. She is strongly pro-choice, strongly pro-pornography ("I've made an extensive study," she told the audience,) and favors abolishing age-of-consent laws governing sexual relationships...
Whether Internet Explorer is "integrated" into Windows 95, and thus permitted under the 1995 consent decree between Microsoft and the Feds, has yet to be decided. Clearly, though, IE 4 is an integral part of Win 98, which lets you browse your own hard drive the same way you would the Web. For the record: yes, you can install Netscape Navigator on Win 98 machines, and even run IE and Navigator simultaneously. But IE launches much faster than Navigator, and so far at least, Microsoft won't let PC makers replace the Explorer icon with Navigator's. Gates' critics call...
...enormous financial clout and standard-setting power to dip its hands into many areas on-line: news (MSNBC), consumer Internet access (Web TV), and travel reservations. And partly for this reason, Microsoft has become extremely controversial of late. The Justice Department lawsuit filed last fall over the earlier consent degree is still ongoing, and may be expanded next month. Several states' attorneys general are investigating Microsoft's trade practices, as is the European Union. More recently, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) held committee hearings in early March questioning whether or not Microsoft was hurting competitiveness in the computer industry...
...leaders as much as democracy." For democracy is not self-executing. It takes leadership to bring democracy to life. Great democratic leaders are visionaries. They have an instinct for their nation's future, a course to steer, a port to seek. Through their capacity for persuasion, they win the consent of their people and call forth democracy's inner resources...