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Posted: 7/30/2002 8:49:26 PM EDT
[b]Pay up, or you're blocked: Indian ISPs tell US megasites[/b]
By Andrew Orlowski in London
Posted: 30/07/2002 at 15:48 GMT


America's biggest content providers could face a toll to enter India cyberspace, if plans mooted by the Indian ISP trade association bear fruit.
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[url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26450.html[/url]

Geez What crap. I wish I owned a country.

Here is some more news from today.. yikes

[b]Lawmakers Consider Bill to Curb Obesity  [/b]

FNC  
Wednesday, July 31, 2002

WASHINGTON — With an estimated 61 percent of people in the United States classified as overweight or obese, America is the land of plenty and it

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[url]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,59155,00.html[/url]

and this I actually am happy to see...

[b]Graduate Sues Former High School, Claims Free Speech Violation  [/b]
 
Tuesday, July 30, 2002
   

LANSING, Mich.  — An Ann Arbor high school graduate is suing her alma mater, claiming the school violated her free speech right to criticize homosexuality during a diversity program.


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[url]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,59137,00.html[/url]
Link Posted: 7/30/2002 8:58:32 PM EDT
[#1]
India has the internet?
Link Posted: 7/30/2002 11:46:43 PM EDT
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Quoted:
India has the internet?
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Yes, and apparently they're just as protectionist about it as they are about everything else.

Here's an idea... put a tax on all the outsourced work we send to Inda's IT industry in response. The whole thing basically serves foreign (Western) business. They'll change their minds REAL QUICK. They have a lot more to lose than we do: Our markets are far more open to them than vice-versa.

Link Posted: 7/31/2002 12:05:58 AM EDT
[#3]
Regarding the "other news"...

The Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Center for Law and Justice filed a federal lawsuit July 10 on behalf of Betsy Hansen, who said Pioneer High School violated her civil rights during its Diversity Week in March.
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Pioneer High now has a "diversity week". Huh. Things have changed in such a short time. Thank you Bill and Hillary.

Hansen, who graduated in June, said she was forced to remove comments about homosexuality from her speech to an all-school assembly and was prohibited from being on a panel that discussed religion and homosexuality. Hansen, who is Roman Catholic, objects to homosexuality based on her religious beliefs.
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Another sieg heil to the thought police. They're against censorship you know. Really!

Muise also said Hansen was told she couldn't be a member of the panel on religion and homosexuality "because her message was a negative message and it would water down the positive message they wanted to convey."

Some students who organized the discussion felt that views of people who oppose homosexuality are often heard, and therefore they recruited the panelists who supported homosexuality, Niehoff said.
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So schools are now recruiting entire (stacked deck) panels of people who actively promote homosexuality. Interesting what the educational priorities are in public education these days.
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