IP: Judge Jackson rips Gates; Sup. Court nixes Virginia porn appeal

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,17876,00.html
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>MS Judge Rips Gates Again
>Associated Press
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>8:15 a.m. Jan. 8, 2001 PST
>WASHINGTON -- The federal judge who ordered Microsoft split in two last 
>year compares Bill Gates to Napoleon, even musing that the company founder 
>should be required to write a book report on him and said Microsoft 
>executives behave like children. "I think he has a Napoleonic concept of 
>himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power and 
>unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses," Judge 
>Thomas Penfield Jackson says of Gates in the Jan. 8 issue of The New 
>Yorker. [...]
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>Background on Virginia case:
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,17876,00.html
>http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/censor/censor.html#virginia
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>http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/010801.ZOR.html
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>MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 2001
>APPEAL -- SUMMARY DISPOSITION
>00-862 VIRGINIA V. RENO, ATTY. GEN., ET AL.
>The judgment is affirmed.
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>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010108/ts/court_pornography_dc_1.html
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>    Monday January 8 11:39 AM ET
>    Supreme Court Lets Stand Computer Anti-Porn Law
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>    By James Vicini
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>    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court
>    rejected on Monday a free-speech challenge by six university
>    professors to a Virginia law that bars public employees from using
>    state computers to access sexually explicit material on the Internet.
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>    The professors argued the law violated the constitutional First
>    Amendment-based academic freedom rights of university scholars and the
>    rights of other public employees engaged in legitimate, work-related,
>    intellectual inquiry.
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>    The law, adopted in 1996, barred about 101,000 state employees,
>    including faculty members, librarians and other researchers at state
>    institutions, from using their state computers to access sites with
>    sexually explicit content.
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>   Sexually explicit is defined as any depiction or description of
>    ``sexual excitement,'' ``sexual conduct,'' or ``a lewd exhibition of
>    nudity.''
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>    Professors or other state employees must get written permission from
>    their agency heads before accessing sexually explicit material.
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