Re: Save the Internet
From: R Depp (Stork2001@comcast.net)
Mon May 15 10:49:16 2006
It seems to me that the original intent of the listserv is being forgotten.
Personal issues, philosophy etc should be handled off line for the benefit
of others who are interested in ultrasound related issues and not
interested. If want to discuss internet, go to an internet listserv.
Just an opinion.
Rd
-----Original Message-----
From: ultrasound@obgyn.net [mailto:ultrasound@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of art
fougner, md
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:06 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND
Subject: Re: Save the Internet
Terry
I'm with Ya on this one! Implications are quite disturbing, esp with the
caving of certain Net firms to the dictates of some govts.
Art
At Tue, 9 May 2006, Terry DuBose wrote:
>
>In the USA we can write/call our legislators. In other countries, it will
take having your leaders take the issue to international diplomacy... I know
of nothing else that might change it.
>
> It distresses me that the American corporations (Yahoo, Google,
Microsoft, Sysco, WalMart, & others) have knuckled under to Chinese
censorship. see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2264508.stm I fear
this is just the beginning. Try GOOGLEing "Tank Man" and see how many
references and images come up; but realize that in China there are no
internet references to "the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989." see:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/
>
> My apologies to those who object to the polemics on this forum, but it
seems an open internet is in our best interests. Peace, Terry
>
>"JOE ANTONY (hpop)" <joeantony@hotpop.com> wrote:
> st1\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#ieooui) } What can we
do about it?
> Joe Antony.
> India
>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: DuBose, Terry
> To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 9:18 PM
> Subject: FW: Save the Internet
>
> Perhaps we should pay attention to this. Terry
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> Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS, FSDMS, FAIUM
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>Associate Professor & Director
>Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program
>University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, CHRP
>4301 West Markham St. Mail Slot #563
>Little Rock, Arkansas, 72205 USA
>501-686-6510
>DuBoseTerryJ@UAMS.edu
>http://www.uams.edu/chrp/sonography/
>http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm
>http://www.io.com/~dubose/
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> http://www.savetheinternet.com/
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> Partial quote from the site:
> Congress shaping telecom law in private
>Well here's a shocker, frm Marilyn Geewax at the San Antonio Statesman.
Lobbyists are writing the bill in secret, in conference committee.
Megolomaniac...
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> Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First
Amendment -- a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies
like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for
you -- based on what site pays them the most. Your local library shouldn't
have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to have its Web site open
quickly on your computer.
> Net Neutrality allows everyone to compete on a level playing field and is
the reason that the Internet is a force for economic innovation, civic
participation and free speech. If the public doesn't speak up now, Congress
will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign by telephone and cable
companies that want to decide what you do, where you go, and what you watch
online.
> This isn't just speculation -- we've already seen what happens elsewhere
when the Internet's gatekeepers get too much control. Last year, Telus --
Canada's version of AT&T -- blocked their Internet customers from visiting a
Web site sympathetic to workers with whom the company was having a labor
dispute. And Madison River, a North Carolina ISP, blocked its customers from
using any competing Internet phone service.
> -- More --
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art fougner, md
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