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NY attorney general gets more ISPs to block alt. newsgroups
By John Timmer
Published: July 11, 2008 - 02:28PM CT
Last month, the New York state Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, announced
that a sting operation had uncovered an indifference on the part of
Internet service providers regarding complaints about child porn
accessible through their networks. Using a combination of legal threats
and public shaming, Cuomo was able to get three ISPs to drop access to the
entire alt. hierarchy of Usenet, a move that encouraged California to
request similar measures. Now, in a sign that these efforts against child
porn were becoming a movement, Cuomo has announced the launch of a web
site, nystopchildporn and agreements with two more ISPs.
AOL is the subject of one of the new agreements, which isn't much of a
surprise, given that its corporate sibling, Time Warner Cable, had already
signed on with Cuomo. It will apparently require no changes on its part,
as CNET reports that the company had already implemented a policy of
blocking child porn access. AT&T is the other, and, given that it's
apparently the US' largest service provider, it represents a significant
accomplishment for the AG. Apparently, AT&T's efforts will be as
indiscriminate as those pursued by Verizon, in that they plan on blocking
access to the entire alt.binaries. hierarchy.
Cuomo's new web site signifies that he's clearly not done yet. It
includes contact information for 20 ISPs that presumably operate in New
York, and text of a letter to send to them to urge that they sign on to
the campaign . . . .
<more:>
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...l-gets-more-isps-to-block-alt-newsgroups.html
Just in case anyone thought that Rudy Giuliani was the only Fascist in New
York.
Or that American Fascists are only found in New York . . . .
After all, why go after the child-porn posters when you can punish all
alt. users?
I think they should go after e-mail next.
Cuomo looks and sounds like the kind of guy who'd get a woody over that.
And didn't we go through this a few years ago, with the DMCA nonsense? all
this looks like a clear effort to make an end-run around the Supreme
Court's ruling that Usenet was officially and even laudably "anarchic", by
threatening ISPs, wot of course the large corporations involved are always
willing to **** their customers at the drop of any official blue-nose's
hat.
I think I may be changing ISPs, 'cause Time-Warner bought out my Adelphia
cable TV and Internet account.
So there goes cable TV too. Damn.
--
tinmimus99@hotmail.com
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
And now the saints began their reign,
For which th' had yearned so long in vain,
And felt such bowel-hankerings,
To see an empire, all of kings,
Delivered from th' Egyptian awe
Of justice, government and law.
< _Hudibras_
By John Timmer
Published: July 11, 2008 - 02:28PM CT
Last month, the New York state Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, announced
that a sting operation had uncovered an indifference on the part of
Internet service providers regarding complaints about child porn
accessible through their networks. Using a combination of legal threats
and public shaming, Cuomo was able to get three ISPs to drop access to the
entire alt. hierarchy of Usenet, a move that encouraged California to
request similar measures. Now, in a sign that these efforts against child
porn were becoming a movement, Cuomo has announced the launch of a web
site, nystopchildporn and agreements with two more ISPs.
AOL is the subject of one of the new agreements, which isn't much of a
surprise, given that its corporate sibling, Time Warner Cable, had already
signed on with Cuomo. It will apparently require no changes on its part,
as CNET reports that the company had already implemented a policy of
blocking child porn access. AT&T is the other, and, given that it's
apparently the US' largest service provider, it represents a significant
accomplishment for the AG. Apparently, AT&T's efforts will be as
indiscriminate as those pursued by Verizon, in that they plan on blocking
access to the entire alt.binaries. hierarchy.
Cuomo's new web site signifies that he's clearly not done yet. It
includes contact information for 20 ISPs that presumably operate in New
York, and text of a letter to send to them to urge that they sign on to
the campaign . . . .
<more:>
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...l-gets-more-isps-to-block-alt-newsgroups.html
Just in case anyone thought that Rudy Giuliani was the only Fascist in New
York.
Or that American Fascists are only found in New York . . . .
After all, why go after the child-porn posters when you can punish all
alt. users?
I think they should go after e-mail next.
Cuomo looks and sounds like the kind of guy who'd get a woody over that.
And didn't we go through this a few years ago, with the DMCA nonsense? all
this looks like a clear effort to make an end-run around the Supreme
Court's ruling that Usenet was officially and even laudably "anarchic", by
threatening ISPs, wot of course the large corporations involved are always
willing to **** their customers at the drop of any official blue-nose's
hat.
I think I may be changing ISPs, 'cause Time-Warner bought out my Adelphia
cable TV and Internet account.
So there goes cable TV too. Damn.
--
tinmimus99@hotmail.com
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
And now the saints began their reign,
For which th' had yearned so long in vain,
And felt such bowel-hankerings,
To see an empire, all of kings,
Delivered from th' Egyptian awe
Of justice, government and law.
< _Hudibras_
