Re: Censorship

Thank you for your unconstitutional, anti-First Amendment corporatist  
censorship.

My tax dollars are proven to be used against me.

Greg
On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Choi, Christy (HHS/ONC) wrote:

> Dear Mr. Austin,
>
> Thank you for contacting the Office of the National Coordinator for  
> Health Information Technology (ONC) and your interest in the Health  
> IT Buzz blog.  We appreciate your feedback. Our goals are to  
> establish a system of transparency, public participation, and  
> collaboration and to raise awareness about Health IT and programs  
> and initiatives of the HITECH Act.  However, the Health IT Buzz blog  
> is a moderated blog, and any comments that do not meet our comment  
> policy will not be published.
>
> We do apologize for the delay in reviewing and publishing some of  
> your comments.  Please be assured we do encourage the public to  
> share their experience and ideas.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Christy
>
>
> Christy Choi
> Web Manger
> Office of the National Coordinator
>           for Health Information Technology
> U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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>
> From: Greg Austin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Fri 2/12/2010 10:58 AM
> To: ONC Request (HHS/OS); Discussion Board at BayChi
> Subject: Re: Censorship
>
> Hi:
>
> I must object to the clear censorship of uploaded comments onto the  
> Health IT Buzz Blog. This blog does not behave like a blog at all-- 
> executive control over submissions to be published has been  
> installed into this site's functionality. The end result is that the  
> comments submitted by its users (namely, me) into the field labeled  
> Leave a Reply that were intended to be immediately viewed by the  
> public, are not immediately published; these comments are then  
> selectively published a week or more later.
>
> The proof of this behavior is the fact that on the evening of  
> January 30 I personally submitted multiple accounts of critique and  
> criticism onto this site; however, on February 4 these comments had  
> still not been published. However, on February 8, two of the lesser  
> critical comments that I submitted had been published.
>
> Currently, the more scathing and antiauthoritarian replies to the  
> Health IT Buzz Blog have still not been published. Therefore, this  
> practice of selective publishing cannot be attributed to random  
> mistake. The functionality of the Health IT Buzz Blog clearly  
> indicates the intentional utility coded into its behavior: The  
> ability to selectively publish by the admin. This behavior cannot  
> accurately be labeled in any way other than "censorship".
>
> Greg Austin
> [email protected]
>
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