ALBANY, N.Y., June 10, 2008
Internet Companies Aid Child Porn Fight
Verizon, Sprint, Time Warner Cable Will Help Block Child Pornography In New York State
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Play CBS Video Video ISPs Tackle Child Porn New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has reached a milestone agreement with Internet providers to block the distribution of child pornography. Julie Chen reports.
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Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday the Internet service providers will block child pornography newsgroups and eliminate the material from their servers.
The companies will also pay $1.125 million to help fund efforts to remove child porn from the Internet.
The agreements follow an undercover investigation of child porn newsgroups and will affect customers nationwide.
Cuomo said in a prepared statement that his investigation of other service providers is continuing.
"Online child pornography represents one of the worst abuses of the Internet," said Time Warner Cable Senior Vice President and Chief Ethics Officer Jeff Zimmerman. He said Time Warner Cable is removing newsgroups from its service.
"By shutting down offending newsgroups and contributing to funds that will combat child pornography online, we are working to remove this content permanently," said Verizon Deputy General Counsel Tom Dailey.
"We are doing our part to deter the accessibility of such harmful content through the internet and we are providing monetary resources that will go toward the identification and removal of online child pornography," said Sprint Senior Public Affairs Manager Matthew Sullivan. "We embrace this opportunity to build upon our own long-standing commitment to online child safety."
Verizon and Time Warner Cable are two of the five largest internet service providers in the world. Verizon has 8.2 million subscribers and Time Warner Cable's Road Runner has 7.9 million. Sprint is one of the three largest wireless companies in the United States.
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- First, NY residents are forced to pay state sales tax on all online purchases, (and how many of those online retailers will actually pay sales tax to NY remains to be seen) and now NY has imposed online censorship. This is all ***. People who don''t want to pay sales tax can set up mailing addresses in bordering states, and determined pedophiles can do the same and more.
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- Bravo this should have been done in all states years ago!
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Posted by rina25
By posting here, are you saying that your prostitution services include child pornography?- Reply to this comment
- gopsoccermom said,
The FEDs are coming after you liberals!
But it is the republicans making scandal headlines. Guess gopsoccermom does not remember Republican Congressman Mark Foley
Six-term Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned amid reports that he had sent sexually explicit Internet messages to at least one underage male former page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma
rk_Foley
Posted by newsthought1
Don forget repubiCON "Scooter" Libby who wrote a raunchy obscure and out of print book called "The apprentice" that hit the media, the demand for it was such the publisher reissued the book. It was full of stories involving pedophilia, incest, bestiality and rape. - Reply to this comment
And why not?
Verizon and Sprint helped the cleptocrats illegally spy on Americans, so now they have to do what they are told by their masters.
This is a bad idea because:
A. As long as these child pornography sites are operating, then we have a way to find out who and where they are, and stop them.
B. This will be used as an excuse to further restrict and censor the Internet, "for our own good", of course.
RE: "The companies will also pay $1.125 million to help fund efforts to remove child porn from the Internet."
And what fine/prison sentence will they pay for helping the fascists to ILLEGALLY SPY ON AMERICANS?- Reply to this comment
- But it is the republicans making scandal headlines.
Posted by newsthought1
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Of course. Pedophilia is expected from Dems.
From Repubs it is a scandal.
NAMBLA never showed up to a Republican National Convention. - Reply to this comment
- [The FEDs are coming after you liberals!]
[Posted by gopsoccermom at 09:49 AM : Jun 10, 2008]
how will they know who is liberal ... and who is not? - Reply to this comment
- gopsoccermom said,
The FEDs are coming after you liberals!
But it is the republicans making scandal headlines. Guess gopsoccermom does not remember Republican Congressman Mark Foley
Six-term Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned amid reports that he had sent sexually explicit Internet messages to at least one underage male former page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley - Reply to this comment
- gopsoccermom - you are only hurting your GOPigs cause when you make statements like this. OH, I get it. You are a liberal in GOPigs clothing!!!
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- "Verizon, Sprint, Time Warner Cable Will Help Block Child Pornography In New York State"
They''re just getting around to doing this now and only in New York. Profits must be good from pedophiles. I guess the glass is half full view is better late then never. - Reply to this comment
- The FEDs are coming after you liberals!
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