> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:21:06 -0400, Vandar wrote:
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>> If you'd like an analogy, When a court takes revokes your driving
>> privileges, you aren't being prevented from going to town. You just need
>> to find another ride.
>> Scumbags who want their kiddie porn can find another ride.

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> You keep making this about just people who want child porn. What about the
> 'scumbags' who want alt.support.diabetes, alt.sports.baseball.nyyankees,
> and oh yes, alt.tv.american-idol. As Thanatos says in the next paragraph
> my AG found illegal images in 88 of over 100,000 newsgroups and now my ISP
> (Verizon) is getting rid of all the groups in the alt. heirarchy while TWC
> is doing them one better and geting rid of ALL Usenet newsgroups .

>>>>> According to the AG's own staff they could only find illegal images
>>>>> on 88 out of the over 100,000 newsgroups on Usenet. And it would be
>>>>> simple to curtail that problem by just shutting off the binary
>>>>> newsgroups and leaving the text-only groups alone. But no... they
>>>>> just shut off the whole thing.

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>> Except that the government isn't limiting them. They are choosing to
>> eliminate one part of their internet service.
>> It's safe to say that if TimeWarner, Verizon, and Sprint thought their
>> rights were being infringed in any way, this would be a long, drawn out
>> court battle.
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>> The way everything has been presented, Cuomo's office investigated child
>> porn and found 88 newsgroups carried by those three companies (probably
>> the companies Cuomo's investigators used) that were used for
>> distributing that porn. His office informed those companies and they all
>> decided the best way to address it was to eliminate access to those groups.

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> I'd decide that too if I didn't want to be prosecuted by the state for a
> part of my service that doesn't give me extra money, only extra work.
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> Micki