Re: Save the Internet
From: Prof. Yaron Zalel (zalel_y@netvision.net.il)
Mon May 15 17:11:00 2006
Perfectly agrree!!!
>----- Original Message -----
From: "R Depp" <Stork2001@comcast.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND" <ultrasound@dns.obgyn.net>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: Save the Internet
> 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
>>
>>--
>> Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS, FSDMS, FAIUM
>>
>>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...
>> ==========
>> 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 --
>>
>
> --
> art fougner, md
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