New "Boundary Breaker": Third Voice. Third Voice is a famous 'web annotation' service.

The legal experts are right. Unfortunately, Zeran's case falls through the cracks.

Zeran added that his latest case against KRXO was an attempt to raise journalistic standards in the Internet age. He asked: "If you went to an e-mail screen and saw an e-mail from someone you didn't know -- an anonymous e-mail -- and the content was provocative and incendiary and pointed toward a particular person, would you publish that information in a newspaper? That's the essence of this case."

Another Legal Defeat for Victim of Online Hoax: "Some legal experts hailed Zeran v. AOL as a decision that gave a boost to free speech online by eliminating the liability of Internet service providers for the third-party information they host, and thus less likely to monitor and censor that information. The case is studied in cyberlaw seminars in law schools around the country."

It took four months, a grim debate, and thousands of mailing list messages, but the group that sets Internet standards has decided not to support wiretapping. Thumbs Down on Net Wiretaps Gee, that inspires confidence for the next time this issue comes up...

More proof the Internet isn't too large to control: Suppose governments enlist their own population to control others? Hackers' New Tack on Kid Porn talks about a noble goal, but the general idea could be used against any socially unacceptable behavior... such as RAMPANT DVD PIRACY.... ahhhh, I mean... possessing a player capable of playing DVDs on Linux.

I haven't gotten the groundwork I need laid to write about Third Voice yet, but a question: Does anybody know what happened to Third Voice's 'community'? Around News Years Day it seems to have dried up, and disappeared. It was probably all the college students going home, but where is everybody now?

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