<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Well Yehuda we definately see eye to eye on that.</DIV>
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<DIV>Here is a great headline I found, -- very accusatory - and I do not believe true:</DIV>
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<DIV>"ISOC and IGF participants under investigation for massive charitable donations fraud scheme. Allegations include perpetuating problems in order to continue funding."</DIV>
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<DIV>Like I said, I do not believe it but I know there is some fire to this smoke.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 10/24/09, Yehuda Katz <I><yehudakatz@mailinator.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Yehuda Katz <yehudakatz@mailinator.com><BR>Subject: Re: Re: [governance] AT&T: Google Manipulates Media, is an<BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009, 5:18 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>>*Yehuda, when you republish something without direct comment -- you adopt it. <BR>Either what you publish is worth reading and edited and remarkably commented on<BR>or it is important by itself -- republishing someone Else's work is making the<BR>news article itself important and not the topic. "Katie Couric" for<BR>president??? <BR>-<BR><BR>Granted Eric,<BR><BR>There is a lot of 'mindless rhetorical' being exchanged between:<BR>AT&T, Google, Apple et.al., <BR><BR>I'm just posting an article of the Juicy Net-Poly-Couture, as it is.<BR>Whether or not there is a "Situation" in the 'CPSR Situation Room'<BR>is debatable, and is of no consequence.<BR>[I'm not Wolf Blitzer launching a 3rd World War, just so I can report on it on<BR>my own Fox Network Situation Room - Ha Ha]<BR><BR>There is one tid-bit I felt worthy within the news piece:<BR><BR>...<BR>As communications services increasingly migrate to broadband
Internet-based<BR>platforms, we can now see the power of Internet-based applications providers <BR>to act as gatekeepers who can threaten the “free and open” Internet.<BR>Google’s double-standard for “openness” – where Google does what it<BR>wants while other providers are subject to Commission regulations – is<BR>plainly inconsistent with the goal of preserving a “free and open” Internet<BR>ecosystem. ...<BR><BR>-<BR><BR>For those of you outside the United States, I have a question.<BR>How do you think Google's voip phone services will effect the buisness<BR>landscape of Your Countrys' phone system?<BR>____________________________________________________________<BR>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<BR> <A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=governance@lists.cpsr.org" ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</A><BR>To be removed from the list, send
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