Comments on: N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access

Time Warner Cable pulls the plug on all newsgroups after Andrew Cuomo's office finds child porn on 88 of them. Verizon Communications and Sprint plan to limit Usenet too.

[A_PC_user]

Time warner removed the newsgroups without warning and left a message suggesting py solutions. They said it was done because of low use. I called customer service and complained and was offered a $20 a month cut in my bill for a years period. I guess they can break their contract with no notice if it benefits them and anyone paying cans still access the usenet.

[waldolc]

No, it's not just in New York. It is being felt all over the country as I type. I've used the Usenet for (holy cow!) decades now. This is ridiculous and I find this type of censorship intolerable. I for one am glad to not visit some random list and find child porn there. But with so few offenders, why must everyone suffer? How do we change this and why must we accept it?

[TibbsInNJ]

A few weeks ago ATT cut some newsgroups off its list of available usenet groups. Tonight they cut another 4000+ groups off. Music discussion for me is now gone.

Thanks Andy. You follow in your dad's footsteps.

[darkskin1977]

It's not about Child Porn at all. Cuomo is just returning the favors for all the campaign contributions by RIAA and MPAA .. Corruption at it's best.

Checkout
http://www.elections.state.ny.us:8080/plsql_browser/getfiler2?filerid_in=A12498

Will be interested to see somebody out there a little smarter connect the dots.

[BillVISION]

By taking such a step,they have not limited our freedom or anything.i think it's just for safety purposes.but yes it's a bad news for people who don't liked being tracked.

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