Comments on: New York, ISPs target child porn found on Usenet

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By: Tom Woolf

Tom Woolf — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:27:14 +0000

Farging* TW in Raleigh, NC dropped newsgroups today (6/23) with absolutely no notice.

Being the good corporate citizens they are, and of course in making every effort to help their customers, they’ve pointed newsgroup users to subscription plans that cost $15/month.

Bastages*.

(*with apologies to Roman Moroni)

By: Nicholas Deleon

Nicholas Deleon — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:43:11 +0000

Yeah, 88 groups is a drop in the bucket on Usenet. I mean, that’s a lot of groups as a raw number, but compared to the number of non-offensive or non-binary groups out there, it’s a small fraction. But good luck explaining how Usenet works to the average Joe.

-na

By: xzela

xzela — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:49:02 +0000

“Some 88 groups have been identified in the plan, which contained as many as 11,390 pornographic images.”

88 groups sounds like a lot, however this article conveniently forgot to mention that there are well over a million different groups on usenet, many of which are not dedicated to serving up binaries.
I would imagine that normal web surfing (via port 80) contains much greater quantities of illegal porn which is much easier to access.

By: ashlieghe

ashlieghe — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:31:25 +0000

this is a great thing that they are doing and it makes the internet more safer after blocking these sites and now I feel alot better letting my kids on the internet or even getting on the computer. This is one thing that makes surfing the internet alot more safer for parents with son that might accidently get into those bad websites.