Verizon Cutting Access To Entire Alt.* Usenet Hierarchy

modemac writes "Verizon has declared it will no longer offer access to the entire alt.* hierarchy of Usenet newsgroups to its customers. This stems from last week's agreement for major ISPs to cut off access to 'newsgroups and Web sites' that make child pornography available. The story notes, 'No law requires Verizon to do this. Instead, the company (and, to varying extents, Time Warner Cable and Sprint) agreed to restrictions on Usenet in response to political strong-arming by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat. Cuomo claimed that his office found child porn on 88 newsgroups — out of roughly 100,000 newsgroups that exist.' In response, Verizon will cut its customers off from a large portion of Usenet, as it will only carry newsgroups in the Big 8."

Comments

Don't Ban Me For This, It Needs To Be Asked

[ComputerGeek01]

I'm from New York and as much as I agree with what this attorney is doing I can't help but to ask, is he pulling an Eliot Spitzer?

Re:Those Evil Democrats

[Dun Malg]

Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice. Really? Like LARPing, or living near Venice Beach so you can party every night? What are you, some sort of right wing nutjob who thinks sexual orientation is a decision to either "be normal" or "go against God and be a fag"? Never met a homosexual who felt it was a choice. If it was really a choice, does it not stand to reason that militant homosexuals would be arguing they have the right to choose homosexuality, rather than arguing they were born that way and biology isn't a choice? Seriously, you need to stop getting your lessons in morality and ethics from a 2000 year old book of bullshit mythology.

Re:alt.binaries.*

[Anonymous Coward]

There is this cool new cutting edge technology called MESSAGE BOARDS

Re:Wipe their ass in the proper direction?

[BooRolla]

Plus - if you have a tangible way to make that happen, what are you doing posting on /.?