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Verizon offers details of Usenet deletion: alt.* groups, others gone
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| Cuomo claimed that his office found child porn on 88 newsgroups--out of
| roughly 100,000 newsgroups that exist. In a press release, he took credit for
| the companies' blunderbuss-style newsgroup removal by saying: "We are
| attacking this problem by working with Internet service providers...I commend
| the companies that have stepped up today to embrace a new standard of
| responsibility, which should serve as a model for the entire industry."
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| What this means in practice is that, thanks to the New York state attorney
| general, Verizon customers will lose out on innocent discussions. Verizon is
| retaining only eight newsgroup hierarchies, even though over 1,000
| hierarchies exist.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967119-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Terrorism! Communism! Child porn! As usual, perfect excuses for all sorts of
things. Sure, without some USENET newsgroup people won't be able to exchange
files anymore. No, really!
Related:
Animal Rights Activists Forced to Hand Over Encryption Keys
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| If you remember, this was sold to the public as essential for fighting
| terrorism. It's already being misused.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/animal_rights_a.html
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