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On Jun 11, 12:29 pm, Rudeney <rude...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> thatwww.motzarella.orgoffers *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.
>
> --
>
> - RODNEY
>
> Next WDW Vacation?
> Who knows...
I use Time Warner so I will be affected by this, however, from what
I've read (and heard) so far, they will only be shutting down access
to those news groups established as offensive from a child pornography
standpoint. They have some software that, supposedly, performs a pixel
by pixel analysis to identify porn. I have not seen anything on how it
works nor what its expected accuracy has been or will be.
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