FC: House Judiciary committee considers anti-drug linking bill

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36209,00.html

            Bill Criminalizes Drug Links
            by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)

            3:00 a.m. May. 9, 2000 PDT
            Opponents of a bill to restrict drug-related
            information online are asking members of the House
            Judiciary Committee to reject it at a scheduled
            vote Tuesday morning.

            The panel is set to consider the Methamphetamine
            Anti-Proliferation Act, which makes it a federal
            crime to publish or link to information related to
            illegal drugs or drug advertising.

            "You have all sorts of First
            Amendment problems with that,"
            said Marv Johnson, legislative
            counsel at the American Civil
            Liberties Union.

            Civil libertarians said the measure
            should be rewritten to remove
            restrictions on Web publishing and
            eliminate a controversial section
            that would allow police to conduct
            secret searches and seizures.

            [...]


http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36210,00.html

            Real Cybersquatting Really Sucks
            Wired News Report

            3:00 a.m. May. 9, 2000 PDT
            For a company just a few weeks old, Verizon Wireless sure
            doesn't take criticism very well.

            To thwart anyone from mocking Verizon's wireless service,
            a lawyer registered the domain name verizonsucks.com. The
            lawyer is with the law firm Arnold and Porter, which represents
            Bell Atlantic, the company that launched Verizon with
            Vodaphone Airtouch.

            So it should be no surprise that Verizon lawyers were not amused
            when hacker-zine 2600 Magazine purchased verizonreallysucks.com.

            [...]

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