 JSYPremium
join:2000-04-05
Elmhurst, NY | Mixed Feelings I'll tell you why I am really mixed on this. It's not so much of what's legal or illegal, but rather the fact that once again, the internet is being shaped into what government or higher authorities what us to see. This easily opens the door for ISPs to go ahead and start blocking any material they deem to contain questionable material - well beyond alt.binaries.xxx What's next? You already saw it expand in this article - it went from child pornography to everything in alt.binaries.
And you all must be out of your mind if you think this "solves" anything. If alt.binaries are blocked around the word - you don't think that people won't just create new newsgroups to hold this material? Now, that is going to be pretty because you'll start to have IPS now have to determine what needs to be blocked rather than a blanketwide alt.binaries block. What if binaries pop up in different named groups? I mean, right now - binaries exist in a lot of groups that are not part of the alt.binaries realm. Will ISPs start to govern those? What about the same material that are on websites? Someone above said you might as well block the internet because the age verification crap doesn't work and that is only for those sites that even have that, and using the logic of these ISPs and the AG, you'd have to start considering that. Age verification doesn't work. Congress enacted that law that restricted internet gambling (more or less) because age verification was a crock - and that was with credit card verification.
The fact is that if you open the door, you give the opportunity for more blockage and if you don't think that is a problem that we'll ever see, then you need to get your head out of your ass and think outside the box and how this affects the whole internet rather than just thinking that this affects child pornography and the RIAA/MPAA.
The only reason Cuomo is all up on this is so that he can make his mark. Spitzer had his mark with the financial industry. Cuomo needs his. |
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| Jeez, they have child porn NEWSGROUPS!?!?!?
Meh... I'm glad I havn't found everything on the internet yet =/ |
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 danclan
join:2005-11-01
Midlothian, VA | said by Poetique:Jeez, they have child porn NEWSGROUPS!?!?!? Meh... I'm glad I havn't found everything on the internet yet =/ they dont.....they (the ny AG office) found images of child porn on some 66 news groups....there are NONE dedicated to child porn and in fact there is VERY aggressive policing by usenet posters of child porn.. they go out of their way to drag out all personal information behind posters and make it public... |
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