IP: "U.S. On Verge of 'Electronic Martial Law'

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

"U.S. On Verge of 'Electronic Martial Law'--Researcher"
Newsbytes (10/15/01); Featherly, Kevin

The 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.

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171130.html


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