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Cato Institute conference on Net-regulation, 9/20/96
This should be a good half-day conference, with some interesting
speakers. I'll probably show up for Charles Platt's keynote.
Naturally, it's being held in the building's Hayek Auditorium. Hayek has
some relevance to cypherpunks, I think -- he warned early on that the
loss of economic freedom inevitably leads to the loss of civil liberties
as well.
He also described the phenomenon of spontaneous order (admittedly in the
context of markets), which speaks to the way the Net has ordered itself.
-Declan
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:05:44 -0400
From: Solveig Bernstein <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Please redistribute this conference announcement freely:
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Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet
The Cato Institute cordially invites you to a morning conference and luncheon
Regulation or Private Ordering?
The Future of the Internet
Friday, September 20, 1996
8:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m.
The Cato Institute's F.A. Hayek Auditorium
1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC
The Internet promises users unprecedented individual control over
information. It is at once a tool for universal communication, a new form of
media, and a new way of doing business. But it is also a challenge to
lawmakers and regulators. Existing laws cannot easily be applied to the
Internet and appear doomed to failure. Do we need a new set of laws or will
voluntary private action ensure order on the information superhighway?
Cato's Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet conference
will bring together leading authorities on law, regulation, and technology
to discuss the problems of adapting existing law to the Internet and to
explore private alternatives to regulation. Can private ordering consistent
with individual
freedom forestall a government backlash against perceived Internet chaos?
The cost of this conference is $25.00.
Registration Wintergarden
8:30 8:35 a.m. Lawrence Gasman Welcoming Remarks
Director, Telecommunications and Technology Studies, Cato Institute
8:35 9:20 a.m. JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES
David Post;Collective Action in Cyberspace" Georgetown University Law
Center
Dan Burk Federalism without Borders; Seton Hall University School of Law
9:20 10:30 a.m. FEDERAL REGULATORY ISSUES
Robert Crandall; Rate Regulation and Arbitrage; Internet Telephony;
Brookings Institution
Trotter Hardy;Congress and Digital Copyright: Avoiding a Balancing
Act;William & Mary College of Law
Lori Fena;Security of Personal and Corporate Information Online: Moving
toward Industry Self Regulation; Electronic Frontier Foundation
10:30 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 11:55 a.m. FREE SPEECH IN CYBERSPACE
Danny Weitzner; The Empowered User: Internet Technology Tools for Limiting
Access to Unwanted Material; Protecting Privacy; Center for Democracy and
Technology
Eugene Volokh;Private Online Speech Controls: Censorship, Constitutionally
Protected Editing, or Both? University of California at Los Angeles School
of Law
David Sobel;Prospects of the CDA in the Supreme Court; Electronic Privacy
Information Center
12:30 p.m. Keynote Address - Charles Platt; Net Futures: Scary and Sublime;
Author, Free Zone, The Silicone Man, Contributing Writer, Wired Magazine
12:30 p.m. Luncheon
News media please call Robin Hulsey at (202) 789 5293.
To Register, please e-mail Scott Wallis at [email protected], or vist our web
site at //www:cato.org.
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Solveig Bernstein, Esq.
(202) 789-5274
(202) 842-3490 (fax)
Assistant Director of Telecommunications & Technology Studies
Cato Institute
1000 Mass. Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001