Re: Dropping Usenet Access

[Rudeney <rudeney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Meerkat1 wrote:
> Quoted from news.cnet.com
>
> I hope this does not occur or affect anyone posting here.
>
> "New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that 
> Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint would "shut down 
> major sources of online child pornography."
>
> What Cuomo didn't say is that his agreement with broadband providers 
> means that they will broadly curb customers' access to Usenet--the 
> venerable pre-Web home of some 100,000 discussion groups, only a handful 
> of which contain illegal material."

This does not surprise me at all.  Everyone wants their elected 
officials to be tough on crime.  That is, until we wake up and realize 
that they are just taking the easy way out by penalizing everyone rather 
than going after the handful of criminals that will fidn a way to keep 
doing what they do.

For those that lose their Usenet access, just remember that 
www.motzarella.org offers *free* access.  I know I mention this a lot, 
but I really have no affiliation at all with this company - I just 
stumbled across them and found that the service works to get to RADP.

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