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...feud threatened to get really ugly, NBC withdrew its challenge. The battle had got "much too personal," Wright said. It became clear, however, that something more than conscience had come to bear: nbc announced that it had reached an agreement with Murdoch under which nbc would be able to transmit some of its cable programming over Murdoch's Star TV network...
...telecommunications policy for the first time in more than 60 years, the Senate Commerce Committee proposed a ban on pornography in cyberspace. The plan, known as the Communications Decency Act of 1995, would make it a crime, punishable by up to $100,000 and two years in jail, to transmit "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" images, E-mail, text files and any other form of communication online...
...most emotion-raising illegal activities is the occasional use of the Internet and online services by pedophiles, who can not only transmit child-pornography images but also have been known to use the Net to make assignations with youngsters. As for homicide, while it's hard to imagine that someone could actually be killed online, police in a Pennsylvania murder- kidnapping case found critical evidence, including a ransom note, on the defendant's computer. The computer can also be a tempting conduit for anonymous threats; the Secret Service tracked down one perpetrator who sent a threat to President Clinton...
Some of these devices can claim to have some purpose. Traffic monitors -- linked to sensors on the freeways -- display the driving conditions in Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle. Cameras mounted near California beaches transmit video clips of surf conditions every 10 minutes...
...evidence that "parental control" button on the America Online and Prodigy dial-up services may more important than some parents thought. The Vienna, Va.-based America Online has announced that the FBI is investigating a "small number of people" who have used the system's E-mail to transmit child pornography, after about a dozen AOL members who received the dirty pictures recently lodged complaints. AOL president Steve Case said that AOL contacted the FBI and terminated the individual accounts as soon as it learned of the abuses.Of special concern is the threat that some users may prey on young...