[ih] Politics behind the Internet

[Nigel Roberts MTA3]

I attended the World Wide Web conference in Boston in 1995 and in Paris 
in 1996.

There was a lot of concern at the time about regulation of content by 
legislation - the Communications Decency Act.


On 7/21/24 19:33, Vint Cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> around 1996, Congress started to wake up to Internet - it had inklings as
> early as 1992 as domain names were offered for a price.
> Then Senator Gore understood Internet as early as 1986 and encourage its
> development. By 1996 the revision of the Telecom Act paid some attention to
> Internet because the WWW was booming. Limited or no regulation was the
> general posture of the day at that time.
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> On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 7:47 AM Gergely Buday via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> Hi there,
>>
>> when the American Congress realised the importance of the Internet?
>>
>> Back in the eighties we were listening the Radio Free Europe on shortwave
>> radios. Congress supported that financially. Did it have similar thoughts
>> concerning the Internet, that it would spread freedom politically and
>> economically?
>>
>> Yours
>>
>> - Gergely
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