Re: Save the Internet
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon May 15 10:04:26 2006
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:
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>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.
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> 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/
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> 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
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>"JOE ANTONY (hpop)" <joeantony@hotpop.com> wrote:
> st1\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#ieooui) } What can we do about it?
> Joe Antony.
> India
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: DuBose, Terry
> To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 9:18 PM
> Subject: FW: Save the Internet
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> Perhaps we should pay attention to this. Terry
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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.
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