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Usenet Blocking Intensifies
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The war against the alt.* hierarchy of Usenet continues as NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has convinced two more ISPs to drop access to part of Usenet. They've also set up the website NY Stop Child Porn, and convinced California to join them in the fight. In some sense, this is rather like bulldozing the slums to fight crime; sure, it might get rid of a lot of undesirables, but it also affects many innocent people, and everyone will now start migrating elsewhere in droves. The article notes, 'Cuomo's new web site signifies that he's clearly not done yet. It includes contact information for 20 ISPs that presumably operate in New York, and text of a letter to send to them to urge that they sign on to the campaign.' And you thought the Eternal September was bad..."
no more kinky sex stuff on usenet :\ That's the only good part of it, too.
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
Best "redundant" mod ever :)
You don't talk about USENET.....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Grandstanding and posturing worked for Spitzer - Cuomo's obviously running for governor.
Uh oh! A website with questionable content!
WE'D BETTER BLOCK ALL WEBSITES TOO
Channel28.EverybodyLovesRaymond
Channel52.AmericanIdol
Channel76.FriendsReruns
Channel95.FoxNews
Channel176.WWESmackdown
I mean seriously, do any of these TV shows contribute anything of value to society???
"Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
Money, the laws of physics, etc.
http://www.nystopchildporn.com/ - is that like http://www.expertsexchange.com/ or http://www.kidsexchange.com/ before they added their hyphens?
Or are they trying to lure in the kiddie-porn people, hoping they'll be looking for New York'S Top Child Porn?
Yes, I propose that we block www.*.org. This will block 12chan and many other bad websites. Won't someone think of the children?!
While Usenet does have useful value, it IS full of kiddie porn. alt.binaries.pictures.naturism.family alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.young alt.binaries.pictures.youth-and-beauty alt.binaries.erotica.teen.female alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.mclt I mean seriously, do any of these usenet categories contribute anything of value to society???
If there is a street in your town conveniently called Rapey Lane, just don't walk down it.
Demolishing Manchester becase of Moss Side is only a good idea on paper.
Just wait...if Cuomo discovers that child porn is shared via HTTP, he might force ISPs to drop access to the web.
No, that would be overreacting. Not the *whole* web... just the .coms!
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And, like potatoes, politicians are best when run through a mechanical slicer and deep fried.
Meow!
Pornography featuring only models verified to be at least 18 years of age?
Frosty piss posts are worthless, GNAA posts are worthless and hurtful, but they are the least of this site's neuroses.
this is for you
Little girls running down the beach naked isn't cp either.
Wow! looks like that link is slashdotted...
You buncha sick bastards!
You're using her as bait, Master!
Can't C++ be used to write programs that display images, without regard to whether they might contain child pornography??
Enabler!!!
KeS
Why wait? You can just disable them in your hosts file, like I'm doi@'#^&2:_=
NO CARRIER
"In all seriousness, they might as well ban Usenet binary distribution altogether. That's what they're going to have to do if they're serious about going the distance with this."
Genius! Cuomo has found a way to trick/force the Internet to abandon backwards compatibility for 7-bit character sets and MIME converstion!
4chan user detected!!! Launch missiles, Exterminate! EXTERMINATE! EXTERRMINAAAAATEEE!!!
Is there a difference?
You know, I never really gave any thought to this type of smut that was available while I used to use Usenet... That was someone else's preference, not mine. Not till I had a daughter. Now I get it. Get rid of it all, it would be better to lose it all then to have one kid be exploited like that. My 2 cents.
That sinking feeling deep in your gut when you KNOW you screwed up bad summed up with: {head desk} {head desk}
And the .uucp TLD and rsyncable text file of all the nodes. Erm, I guess we gotta' modernize it. Make that an rsyncable XML file of all the nodes!
If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.
There's a German joke about sharks prefering politicians because without a spine and butter on their head (German idiom for having skeletons in your closet), they're the perfect diet.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.