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IP: Judge Jackson rips Gates; Sup. Court nixes Virginia porn appeal
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 19:32:01 -0500
********* http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,17876,00.html MS Judge Rips Gates Again Associated Press 8:15 a.m. Jan. 8, 2001 PST WASHINGTON -- The federal judge who ordered Microsoft split in two last year compares Bill Gates to Napoleon, even musing that the company founder should be required to write a book report on him and said Microsoft executives behave like children. "I think he has a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses," Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson says of Gates in the Jan. 8 issue of The New Yorker. [...] ********* Background on Virginia case: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,17876,00.html http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/censor/censor.html#virginia http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/010801.ZOR.html MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 2001 APPEAL -- SUMMARY DISPOSITION 00-862 VIRGINIA V. RENO, ATTY. GEN., ET AL. The judgment is affirmed. ********** http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010108/ts/court_pornography_dc_1.html Monday January 8 11:39 AM ET Supreme Court Lets Stand Computer Anti-Porn Law By James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a free-speech challenge by six university professors to a Virginia law that bars public employees from using state computers to access sexually explicit material on the Internet. The professors argued the law violated the constitutional First Amendment-based academic freedom rights of university scholars and the rights of other public employees engaged in legitimate, work-related, intellectual inquiry. The law, adopted in 1996, barred about 101,000 state employees, including faculty members, librarians and other researchers at state institutions, from using their state computers to access sites with sexually explicit content. Sexually explicit is defined as any depiction or description of ``sexual excitement,'' ``sexual conduct,'' or ``a lewd exhibition of nudity.'' Professors or other state employees must get written permission from their agency heads before accessing sexually explicit material. [...] ********** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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