PFIR: "People for Internet Responsibility"

From: Bruce Taylor (Bruce.Taylor@hedb.uib.no)
Date: Wed Nov 17 1999 - 13:44:49 MET


<http://www.pfir.org/>

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Why was PFIR formed?

With the rapid commercialization of the Internet and its World Wide Web
during the 1990's, there are increasing concerns that decisions regarding
these resources are being *irresponsibly skewed* through the influence of
powerful, vested interests (in commercial, political, and other categories)
whose goals are not necessarily always aligned with the concerns of
individuals and people at large. Such incompatibilities have surfaced in
areas including *domain name policy, spam, security, encryption, freedom of
speech issues, privacy, content rating and filtering,* and a vast array of
other areas.

Bruce

Bruce Taylor Bruce.Taylor@hedb.uib.no
HF fakultetets EDB-seksjon Computing Section, Faculty of the Arts
Universitetet i Bergen
N-5007 Bergen NORWAY



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