Cuomo: AT&T and AOL block child porn newsgroups

By VALERIE BAUMAN , Associated Press Writer, Technology / Internet

(AP) -- Two more Internet access providers have agreed to eliminate certain newsgroups that contain child pornography and purge their servers of child pornography Web sites in an agreement with state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

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Posted by GrayMouser 07/11/08 17:47

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Does this strike anyone else as grandstanding and censorship?

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Posted by bhiestand 07/12/08 01:52

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Yes, GrayMouser, it certainly does. They went through "millions" of pictures over several months and only found 11,390 illicit photos? Even assuming "millions" is only 3,000,000, that would be less than 0.4%, and there were likely many duplicates of the same photos. Eliminating alt.binary because 0.4% of the IMAGES posted may be child pornography is ridiculous.

RIP Usenet, I'll miss you.