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On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:48:25 +0000 (UTC), ervaqre <me@privacy.net>
wrote:


>Earlier this week US Internet service providers Verizon, Sprint and
>Time Warner Cable publicly agreed to block parts of the usenet in an
>attempt to curtail access to child pornography. Today however, New York
>State’s attorney general Andrew M. Cuomo involved in the deal comes
>with new information that the real reason was not to curb child porn,
>but to shut off access to alt.games.lucas-arts.monkey-island, a usenet
>discussion group informally known as Aglami.
>
>Aglami started off as a discussion group dedicated to the LucasArts
>Entertainment Company LLC game series Monkey Island, more than
>ten years ago. Yet like many other groups in the alt.* hierarchy, a
>class of usenet groups with no centralized control or authority,
>members of Aglami soon ventured out into a world of unprecedented
>textual debauchery and mental disarray.  
>
>“You can’t help but look at this material and not be disturbed,” said
>Mr. Cuomo, who had promised to take up the issue during his 2006
>campaign. "I am the proud father of three beautiful children, and I
>simply would not like to see them to grow up in a world where people
>can just post to Aglami freely. We just can't allow them to go on with
>this."
>
>“The I.S.P.s’ point had been, ‘We’re not responsible, these are
>individuals communicating with individuals, we’re not responsible,’ ”he
>said, referring to Internet service providers. “Our point was that at
>some point, you do bear responsibility.”
>
>While Cuomo stressed that the procedures taken by the Internet service
>providers up to this point have been entirely voluntary, other
>countries seem inspired by the move and are looking at judicial ways to
>efficiently remove the threat Aglami poses to society. Poland's
>Minister of National Defence Bogdan Klich announced the Polish
>parliament will vote on the issue next month. "Being a new member of
>the European Union," he said in a recent press conference, "we would
>like to express our commitment by casting Aglami into the deepest
>depths of hell."

Somehow this doesn't come as a suprise...


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