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[News] 'Child Porn' Used as Excuse to Shut down All Newsgroups (USENET)

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Usenet Villified In NY Deal With ISPs

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| Time Warner Cable will turn off all newsgroup access, while Sprint plans to 
| cut access to the whole alt.* segment. Verizon may follow Sprint's example. 
| 
| Blocking all newsgroups does appear to be a broad approach to a problem 
| involving a minority of such groups. As with the Internet in general, not 
| everything in Usenet poses a threat. But no one wants to be tainted with even 
| a suggestion of being soft on child porn, hence the rush to apply censorship 
| with a sweeping axe rather than a skillfully-wielded scalpel.    
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/06/11/usenet-villified-in-ny-deal-with-isps

Kill USENET because it might -- just might -- contain *something*. Oh
noes! "Terrorists". What's next? Torrent? P2P? HTTP? FTP? The likes of
Microsoft/MPAA/RIAA, along with ACTA and the help of bought 'governments', are
already working on it. And there's this one too (animal activists=illegal?):

EFF Sues Rodeo Group Over Removal Of Videos On YouTube

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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked a federal court to protect the 
| free speech rights of an animal rights group after its video critiques of 
| animal treatment at rodeos were removed from YouTube because of false 
| copyright claims.   
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/06/11/eff-sues-rodeo-group-over-removal-of-videos-on-youtube


Recent:

Caught in the ACTA

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| Politicans remain the ultimate dinosaurs in terms of openness: ideally, the
| rich and powerful would like to make their cosy deals - often aimed at that
| dangerous openness - behind closed doors.
|
| [...]
|
| This secret agreement, drawn up without any public discussion or oversight,
| would basically impose all of the worst aspects of US intellectual monopolies
| on everyone in sight - starting with willing stooges like the UK, and
| progressing to the unwilling but powerless.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/05/caught-in-acta.html


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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