[Random-bits] Dan Gillmor on Domain names and Free Expression on Net

[James Love]

http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg082700.htm

                     Posted at 4:51 p.m. PDT Saturday, August 26, 2000 

                     Restoring balance in the
                     battle over free expression on
                     the Net

                     BY DAN GILLMOR
                     Mercury News Technology Columnist 

SUPPOSE you found yourself looking at a Web site called
''mercurynewssucks.com,'' an online attack on this newspaper and its
contents. You'd be remarkably dense if you failed to understand that
the Mercury News was not the online publication's creator or owner.

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