| Scumbags In my opinion, the people at Verizon who made this decision are a bunch of scumbags, and you can tell them I said so. |
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EPS
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Hingham, MA | The people at Verizon, or the New York Attorney General's office for forcing the ISPs to restrict newsgroups? |
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| said by EPS:The people at Verizon, or the New York Attorney General's office for forcing the ISPs to restrict newsgroups? And that applies to groups like nyc.transit and alt.cellular.verizon how? |
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 ShamayimI already have a Messiah.Premium
join:2002-09-23 | reply to EPS
Yep, an arm twist by the AG to get the ISPs to cough up $$$ and block binaries in exchange for . . . what? Immunity from prosecution for being a 'gateway' would be my guess. |
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| A LOT more than binaries. The Alt hierarchy contains 99% of the political, self help, support, science groups and "free speech" groups. To kill 88 groups with suspect illegal material they are killing 10's of thousands of groups devoted to open discussion. Although I'm sure the right wings are happy that alt.talk.origins is going to be blocked. Can't have pesky facts out there. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to Bobcat
You'd have to look at what the AG wanted... at this point, I don't know if it was that the AG wanted all newsgroups blocked and this was a compromise, or if the AG just wanted some obvious bad ones blocked and Verizon and TWC used it as an excuse to cut a ton to save some money. |
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Glen Allen, VA | reply to rahvin112
said by rahvin112:Although I'm sure the right wings are happy that alt.talk.origins is going to be blocked. Can't have pesky facts out there. Was that last part really necessary? |
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 QumahlinNever Enough TimePremium,MVM
join:2001-10-05
united state | reply to rahvin112
said by rahvin112:A LOT more than binaries. The Alt hierarchy contains 99% of the political, self help, support, science groups and "free speech" groups. To kill 88 groups with suspect illegal material they are killing 10's of thousands of groups devoted to open discussion. Although I'm sure the right wings are happy that alt.talk.origins is going to be blocked. Can't have pesky facts out there. All of which are freely accessible via the web. No need for your ISP to provide them. Not to mention most of the web interfaces are far better then the actual newsgroup (readers) primarily because the web interface is actually tailored around...newsgroups...not binary downloads.
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You can subscribe to a newsgroup service other than Verizons. The agreement doesn't have Verizon blocking them. So, if you want to get your porn and music and movies from newsgroups, you will have to pay for the privilege.
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
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Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by fAcEtIOUs:You can subscribe to a newsgroup service other than Verizons. The agreement doesn't have Verizon blocking them. So, if you want to get your porn and music and movies from newsgroups, you will have to pay for the privilege. What ISP provided news service DOESN'T suck anyway?
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| said by dvd536:said by fAcEtIOUs:You can subscribe to a newsgroup service other than Verizons. The agreement doesn't have Verizon blocking them. So, if you want to get your porn and music and movies from newsgroups, you will have to pay for the privilege. What ISP provided news service DOESN'T suck anyway? Verizon's doesn't suck. At least not until a week from now. |
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said by Bobcat:In my opinion, the people at Verizon who made this decision are a bunch of scumbags, and you can tell them I said so. Lots of companies are like this.  TWC RR will be killing its usenet/newsgroup service. |
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kudos:1 | reply to Qumahlin
I take it you've never used Agent Newsreader... |
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ironically, Verizon and TimeWarnerCable's were the best of all ISPs... |
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ShamayimI already have a Messiah.Premium
join:2002-09-23 | reply to rahvin112
said by rahvin112:I'm sure the right wings are happy that alt.talk.origins is going to be blocked. Can't have pesky facts out there. Just a FYI... the NY A.G. doing this is a left wing Democrat.
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| said by Shamayim:said by rahvin112:I'm sure the right wings are happy that alt.talk.origins is going to be blocked. Can't have pesky facts out there. Just a FYI... the NY A.G. doing this is a left wing Democrat. It's fairly well known that far left and far right wingers are one-in-the-same. Both want the world to submit to their personal morals, and they'll use any force necessary to achieve those ends.
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Carrollton, TX | And would those morals include screwing hookers like their "previous" governor or the present one who's already admitted to having an affair while married???? |
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tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | judging by the trespasses of right wing Republicans and left wing Democrats: absolutely. Hypocrisy is an art perfected by the political extremists. |
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roger that. I am stunned. fucking assholes. |
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