Da-Chief
07-21-2008, 16:29
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo recently conducted a "sting" on broadband ISPs that consisted of discovering that Usenet is home to some horrible things (aside from Golden Girls fan fiction). Under penalty of suit, the AG then got ISPs to agree to highly publicized deals that don't have them doing anything differently (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/96203). The deals seem most effective at providing good press for Cuomo, while allowing ISPs to justify their elimination of newsgroup services (AT&T now blocks the entire alt.binary hierarchy "for the children").
While Verizon, AT&T, AOL, Time Warner Cable and Sprint have all been playing along with Cuomo -- apparently Comcast has yet to strike a deal. In response, Cuomo is threatening legal action against Comcast, and has given the cable operator a five day ultimatum, according to Reuters (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080721/wr_nm/comcast_investigation_internetporn_dc). On a related note, while covering the story, the Associated Press (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--childpornography0721jul21,0,3375902.story) (screen grab (http://www.corpsman.com/r0/download/1330510~fd4c8e59b8a7add298869bd9fef2417c/Capture.JPG)) and Newsday made the AP's FTP login information accessible for everyone to see (the password's already been changed). From a copy of the letter (pdf) from Cuomo to Comcast:Comcast's unwillingness to sign the code of conduct and purge its system of child pornography puts Comcast at the back of the pack in the race to fight this scourge, and would likely be surprising to Comcast's millions of customers across the country. Time is of the essence here, as every day without these measures is another day that this illegal material is sluicing through the Internet.
Last week the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), of which Comcast is the primary driver, announced a "historic" agreement with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG). But the letter claims this deal "fall well short" of Cuomo's code of conduct. That's ironic considering neither agreement appears to do very much.
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo recently conducted a "sting" on broadband ISPs that consisted of discovering that Usenet is home to some horrible things (aside from Golden Girls fan fiction). Under penalty of suit, the AG then got ISPs to agree to highly publicized deals that don't have them doing anything differently (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/96203). The deals seem most effective at providing good press for Cuomo, while allowing ISPs to justify their elimination of newsgroup services (AT&T now blocks the entire alt.binary hierarchy "for the children").
While Verizon, AT&T, AOL, Time Warner Cable and Sprint have all been playing along with Cuomo -- apparently Comcast has yet to strike a deal. In response, Cuomo is threatening legal action against Comcast, and has given the cable operator a five day ultimatum, according to Reuters (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080721/wr_nm/comcast_investigation_internetporn_dc). On a related note, while covering the story, the Associated Press (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--childpornography0721jul21,0,3375902.story) (screen grab (http://www.corpsman.com/r0/download/1330510~fd4c8e59b8a7add298869bd9fef2417c/Capture.JPG)) and Newsday made the AP's FTP login information accessible for everyone to see (the password's already been changed). From a copy of the letter (pdf) from Cuomo to Comcast:Comcast's unwillingness to sign the code of conduct and purge its system of child pornography puts Comcast at the back of the pack in the race to fight this scourge, and would likely be surprising to Comcast's millions of customers across the country. Time is of the essence here, as every day without these measures is another day that this illegal material is sluicing through the Internet.
Last week the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), of which Comcast is the primary driver, announced a "historic" agreement with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG). But the letter claims this deal "fall well short" of Cuomo's code of conduct. That's ironic considering neither agreement appears to do very much.
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