Information Highway, The
Information Highway, The | The Private Sector Alone Should Build the Information Highway
The White House folks who want to bring you socialized medicine under the rubric of “managed competition in health care” are pushing hard to socialize cyberspace under the guise of “managing the transition” to the new “information age.” In his campaign manifesto, Putting People First, Bill Clinton called for: “A national information network to link every home, business, lab, classroom and library by the year 2015. To expand access to information, we will put public records, databases, libraries and educational materials on line for public use.”
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- Introduction
- Chapter 1: What Is the Information Highway?
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Chapter 2: How Should the Information Highway Be Developed?
- Development of the Information Highway: An Overview
- The Federal Government Should Expedite the Information Highway
- The Information Highway Should Serve Public Interests over Commerce
- The Private Sector Alone Should Build the Information Highway
- The Information Highway Should Develop According to Consumer Demand
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Chapter 3: Will the Information Highway Benefit Society?
- The Impact of the Information Highway: An Overview
- A Global Information Infrastructure Can Benefit the World
- Internet Bulletin Boards Create a Sense of Community
- The Information Highway Can Promote Environmental Networking
- The Information Highway Can Benefit Blacks
- The Information Highway Benefits Rural Areas
- Virtual Reality Can Help Disabled Persons
- The Information Highway May Not Benefit Society
- The Information Highway Will Not Connect Most of the World’s People
- Corporate Control of the Information Highway Threatens the Public Interest
- The Information Highway May Harm the Environment
- The Information Highway May Not Benefit Minorities
- Computers Occupy Too Much of Children’s Time
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No: The Information Highway May Not Benefit Society
- Regulating Computer Content: An Overview
- Objectionable Computer Content Should Be Regulated
- Computer Pornography Should Be Prohibited
- Sexually Repulsive Internet Postings Should Be Prohibited
- America Needs a Secure Computer Encryption System
- Objectionable Computer Content Should Be Labeled, Not Censored
- Government Should Not Censor the Internet
- Prosecutors Should Not Excessively Target Pornography
- A Government Computer Encryption System Would Threaten Civil Liberties
- Computer Technology Can Filter Out Objectionable Material
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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