Re: Death of Usenet? Might be real this time

Fred Moore wrote:
> New York pushes ISPs to curb Usenet access
>
> Time Warner Cable pulls the plug on all newsgroups after the state AG's
> office finds child porn on 88 of them. Verizon and Sprint plan to limit
> Usenet too.
>
> <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9964895-38.html>
> -----
>
> More dim-witted politicians and fascist monopolists at it again. Can't
> have the people exercising their freedom because 0.1% of them are
> abusing it. So are they going to apply this standard to DUI and gun
> violence?
>
> --Fred

The New York times claimed they were blocking child-porn websites.
Time-Warner and Sprint denied it. Now, tonight, NBC News said these
providers were blocking child-porn websites. Are they lying or just
careless? Maybe corporate media don't like usenet authors competing
with the propaganda they publish. As the CNET article said, maybe
politicians, too, are uncomfortable with free speech on the internet.

How about Google? Are they out to destroy usenet?

In article <g2n3tu$m29$>,
E Z Peaces <> wrote:

> Maybe corporate media don't like usenet authors competing
> with the propaganda they publish.

What's a "usenet author?" Can you name one?
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W. Oates

Warren Oates <> wrote:
> What's a "usenet author?" Can you name one?

Warren Oates.

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K.

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