Web Politica
General Political
- Vote Smart Web
- Information on Political campaigns, both Federal and State.
- New Worker
- The New Worker is now on the web. The site includes a variety of
political information, documentation, and essays.
- The Legislative
Branch
- Site with links to Congressional representatives and their
(usually lame) homepages. Visit these homepages, and see whether you
think these people have the qualifications to legislate the web.
- Patrick Leahy
- A U.S. Senator who actually has a web page (i.e. not just drivel
about himself).
- U.S. Census Bureau
- The U.S. Census Bureau's WWW pages, with customizable data retrieval
available. See also UN
estimates and projections of urban, rural and city
populations.
- On-line Voter
Registrations
- Yes, you can register to vote, on-line -- at least that's the
impression from this site. If that ain't so, let me know.
- Gleick Essay
- James Gleick's essay about Microsoft, entitled "Making Microsoft
Safe for Capitalism".
Politics &/of the Web
- Poly-Cy
- A guide to internet resources for political science conferences.
- Cyberspace Declaration of
Independence
- I received this declaration via e-mail, and converted it into a
simple html document. It seemed worth posting.
- Voters' Telecom Watch
- On-line political watch group.
- President's Remarks for Telecom Act Signing
- For an example of the general ignorance of the web, see the
President's remarks (not that the President is the only one) at the
signing of the Telecommunications Act.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The EFF is a non-profit civil liberties organization
working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and
access to online resources and information.
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C.,
established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties
issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure, such as the
Clipper Chip, the Digital Telephony proposal, national ID cards, medical
record privacy, credit records, and the sale of consumer data.
- The Ethical Spectacle
- An online monthly newsletter which examines the intersection of
ethics, law and politics in society.
- Justice On Campus
- The Justice on Campus Project exists to preserve free expression and
due process rights at universities. The archive includes reports on
disciplinary charges, speech codes, and censorship on college campuses.
- CyberWire Dispatch
- A "hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners news service that concentrates on
issues relevant to Cyberspace."
- Queer Resources Directory
- An archive of files about everything "queer."
- Human Rights Watch
- A gopher site for the international human rights organization.
- Computer Professionals
for Social Responsibility
- A "public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others
interested in the impact of computer technology on society. As
technical experts, CPSR members provide the public and policymakers with
realistic assessments of the power, promise, and limitations of
computer technology. As concerned citizens, we direct public attention to
critical choices concerning the applications of computing and how
those choices affect society."
- Critical Path Aids Project
- An AIDS treatment and prevention information project that offers AIDS
treatment and safer sex information via a free computer bulletin board,
electronic mailing lists, and a page on the World Wide Web. Critical Path
is also an Internet Service Provider, providing free access to the
Internet for both organizations and individuals in the Philadelphia area.
- ACLU
- Site for the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Archive of Poetry Banned by AOL
- A list of archived poetry banned by AOL.
- John Perry Barlow
- Homepage of a Co-founder of the EFF.
- Jon Lebkowsky
- Web page with essays, links, and general information.
- Telecommunications Bill
- The Telecommunications Bill (of February 1996) and information
concerning it.
- Virtual
World's Resources
- Site containing lots of links concerning web "community", politics, etc.
- Club Wired
- EFF forum on-line, 7pm PST Thursdays.
- EFF Austin
- Organization's web page on civil liberties in cyberspace
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