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...example, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2002 that only sports gambling is covered by the Wire Act, a 1960s law aimed mainly at mobsters that prohibits anyone in the gaming business from transmitting bets by wire communication. And in March the World Trade Organization in Geneva upheld a complaint by Antigua that U.S. restrictions on cross-border Internet gaming amounted to a breach of free-trade rules. Says lawyer Mark Mendel, who represented Antigua: "They say all Internet gaming is illegal throughout the U.S., but that simply isn't true...
...resulted in the war on terror and gave license to attack the concept of multilateralism. Sands then explained how lawyers working for the Defense Department created the legally unprecedented category of “unlawful combatants” to deny captured suspects the rights that covenants like Geneva were supposed to protect. Sands also cited administration memos arguing that interrogation rules mandated by conventions on torture could be overruled at the order of the U.S. President. Because of their arguments, Sands said, members of the Bush administration—including legal counsel—could be pursued by other signatories...
More than 11,000 heads of state, business leaders, technology experts, development gurus and do-gooders have gathered this week in Tunisia for a UN-sponsored meeting dubbed the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The second phase of a two-part meeting that began in Geneva just under two years ago, the Tunisia conference has some heady aims. The most controversial issue going into the summit was who should control the Internet, which is currently managed by the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit company set up by the U.S. Department...
...percent of the world population that lives in the industrialized world enjoy five times better access to fixed-line and mobile phone services, nine times better access to Internet services, and own 13 times more personal computers than the 85 percent living in poor and middle-ranking countries. The Geneva meeting set a goal of bringing half the world's population online by 2015; the Tunis meeting is expected to work out a plan of action for achieving that target. Perhaps the most novel innovation: The $100 wind-up lap-top introduced by MIT director Nicholas Negroponte, who plans...
When they got to Geneva, Gaghan learned that "all the business of the Middle East is conducted in hotel lobbies." Schmoozing with oil traders and arms dealers at the Hotel Intercontinental, he spotted former Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, still one of the world's most powerful people, and sent him a note requesting an interview, revealing what Gaghan calls the "pathetic ineptitude of my methodology...