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Re: Censorware Summit Take II, from The Netly News
On Wed, Jul 16, 1997 at 10:13:22PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
> > Spooked by the threat of a revised Communications
> >Decency Act, high tech firms are seriously backing
> >labels for the first time. Joining Clinton in coercing
> >Internet users and businesses to label all their web
> >pages were Yahoo, Excite, and Lycos. "I threw a
> >gauntlet to other search engines in today's meeting
> >saying that collectively we should require a rating
> >before we index pages," Robert Davis, the president of
> >Lycos, told me. Translation: if you don't play ball,
> >and label your site, search engines will ignore you.
>
> These suggests that Yahoo, Excite, and Lycos might become tempting targets
> of a Net-wide DoS attack until they repent.
It also suggests a far more intelligent course of action, namely
setting up a competing, non-rating, search engine somewhere else. It
would soon become more popular than Yahoo etc -- a tremendous
business opportunity.
--
Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited",
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