From kieran@well.comMon Jul 22 11:07:12 1996 Received: from vorlon.mit.edu (brnstndkramden.acf.nyu.edu@VORLON.MIT.EDU [18.238.0.139]) by eff.org (8.6.13/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA16924; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:49:07 -0700 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by vorlon.mit.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA11159 for fight-censorship-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 21:47:24 -0400 Received: from po9.andrew.cmu.edu (PO9.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.109]) by vorlon.mit.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA11155 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 21:47:19 -0400 Received: (from postman@localhost) by po9.andrew.cmu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA16285 for fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 21:47:16 -0400 Received: via switchmail for fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 21:47:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from po4.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 21:45:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mh1.well.com (mh1.well.com [206.15.64.22]) by po4.andrew.cmu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA03629 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 21:45:34 -0400 Received: from well (kieran@well.com [206.15.64.10]) by mh1.well.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id SAA29817 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:45:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:45:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Aaron L Dickey Subject: England's turn to play Iron Fist? To: fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu Precedence: bulk X-URL: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/top/ X-JusticeOnCampusURL: http://joc.mit.edu/ It's early yet, but this just doesn't look like a good sign...--Aaron The Telegraph, 3 July 1996 Bottomley 'should rule the Internet' By Rachel Sylvester, Political Staff VIRGINIA Bottomley, the National Heritage Secretary, should be given responsibility for the Internet, a report by MPs said yesterday. They also said her department should be renamed the Department of Communications and Heritage. The National Heritage Committee said that the Net was so important that it needed a Cabinet minister to control and represent it. "Since the Prime Minister established the Department of National Heritage, technological progress has changed the nature of its work," the report stated. The department should be expanded, with more ministers and civil servants dealing with "communications and broadcasting", the MPs concluded. Their report stated: "Because of the importance we attach to the superhighway, we do not believe that the allocation of responsibility for it as just one of many assigned to junior ministers . . . gives it anything like sufficient weight." The findings will infuriate Mrs Bottomley, who advised against transferring responsibility for the Internet away from the DTI. The MPs also called for responsibility for licensed betting and gaming to be moved from the Home Office to bring horse and dog racing into the same department as other sports. The report, called The Structure and Remit of the Department of National Heritage, also recommends that the new Department for Communications and Heritage should be responsibile for the BBC World Service.