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Four horsemen skew Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jbugden@alis.com)
Tue Oct 7 15:25:55 1997
From: jbugden@alis.com
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 97 13:33:52 -0500
To: <cryptography@c2.net>
Excerpted from the following NY Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/100797encrypt.html
Clinton's Top Internet Adviser Says
U.S. Encryption Policy Is Unformed
Magaziner took The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to task for what
he characterized as sensationalizing negative aspects of the Internet. An
analysis of the newspapers' front-page coverage of the global computer network
in the last year, he said, revealed that the four most popular words or phrases
in such articles were "drug deal," "stalker," "bomb maker" and "pornography."
Such coverage, he asserted, had led to a popular image of the Internet that was
fundamentally skewed and that made arguing for market-driven solutions
difficult.
