From: Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 05:36:40 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Cato Institute conference on Net-regulation, 9/20/96
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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


// declan@eff.org // I do not represent the EFF // declan@well.com //


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:05:44 -0400
From: Solveig Bernstein <sberns@cato.org>
To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu

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&quot; 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 swallis@cato.org, 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
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Washington, DC 20001