Re: Re: Censorship

I'm through with this for now. I have recently encountered a few  
rather frightening incidents of censorship and overall obfuscation  
within FFS and government offices in general. Therefore, it is time  
for me to now bow out altogether.

Greg
On Feb 19, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Raoul Duke wrote:

> any chance you'd post about this or let me fwd this to reddit?
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Greg Austin  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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 policy will not be published.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
>>> 200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
>>> Suite 729-D
>>> Washington, DC 20201
>>> (o) 202-690-6341
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>> Greg Austin
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