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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."
You don't talk about USENET.....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
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
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?
And, like potatoes, politicians are best when run through a mechanical slicer and deep fried.
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!!!
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.