What's What

The Key:

• Peace in Cyberspace: [originating site now gone] Cyberspace consists mostly of words. Without facial expressions or vocal inflections to make our meaning clear to others, misunderstandings can happen easily. One gentleman noticed words that can hurt others (including racial slurs) were appearing all too frequently in certain venues. This campaign is his response.
  
  
• Age of Reason: Formerly known as Seniorsnet, this site features a vast array of links that are of particular interest to folks over 50.
  
  
• Online Privacy Campaign: A link to Electronic Frontiers Georgia, with details of their efforts in regard to a bit of Georgia legislation that's come to be known as the Internet Police Law, plus other legislation now pending, the Digital Signature Law.
  
  
• AIDS Awareness Red Ribbon Campaign: A link to the Sumeria site's collection of writings on why HIV may not be the cause of AIDS after all. Even if you've been blessed never to have had anyone you know touched by AIDS-related matters, this is important information you want to know about.
  
  
• Responsibility in Free Speech : A campaign started by Zondervan, the largest Christian publishing house, who, while supporting freedom of speech, became concerned with the amount of graphic and explicit language in cyberspace where anyone old enough to power-up a computer might stumble upon it.
  
  
• Free Speech Online: Electronic Frontier Foundation's campaign in support of continued "freedom of the airwaves" in cyberspace, without which, information you might need (including material that could benefit your own health or the health of a loved one) might vanish from Internet. To ease the load on EFF's servers, this link connects to a different but kindred site, Voters Telecommunications Watch. Visit this site to keep informed on what's happening with the Communications Decency Act in different States. New York had passed such a law, for example -- recently tossed out by a Supreme Court decision -- which criminalized expression online that is currently legal in print; and Georgia sought to pass a law, currently halted by a preliminary injunction, to criminalize anonymity and the use of pseudonyms on the Internet. What's wrong with this picture...?

Most recent revision: December 15, 2018 by Jeff Gordon
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