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IP: "U.S. On Verge of 'Electronic Martial Law'
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:39:42 -0400
"U.S. On Verge of 'Electronic Martial Law'--Researcher" Newsbytes (10/15/01); Featherly, KevinThe United States is unduly clamping down on the Internet in order to root out terrorist activities online, argues University of Illinois professor Heidi Brush, who says the federal government would do better to rethink the conceptual framework of U.S. communications instead. She spoke at the recent Internet Research 2.0 gathering for the Association of Internet Researchers. Although offering no concrete fixes to the problem, Professor Brush painted a grim picture of "Internet martial law" being imposed in a vain attempt to capture distributed terrorist groups. Terrorists' style of "Net war," a term coined earlier by experts at the RAND policy think tank, would prove elusive to counter by the lumbering centralized government, she said.
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