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N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access
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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.

Time Warner Cable said it will cease to offer customers access to any
Usenet newsgroups, a decision that will affect customers nationwide.
Sprint said it would no longer offer any of the tens of thousands of
alt.* Usenet newsgroups. Verizon's plan is to eliminate some "fairly
broad newsgroup areas."