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US Internet Service Providers to Block Access to Websites Promoting Child Porn
Three major Internet Service Providers in the US, Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable are to block access to Internet bulletin boards and Web sites that disseminate child porn.
The companies have agreed to shut down access to newsgroups that traffic in pornographic images of children on one of the oldest outposts of the Internet, known as Usenet. Usenet began nearly 30 years ago and was one of the earliest ways to swap information online, but as the World Wide Web blossomed, Usenet was largely supplanted by it, becoming a favored back alley for those who traffic in illicit material.
The service providers’ move come in the wake of a sting operation launched by the New York Attorney General's office.
When agents posing as customers complained they could see child porn, the service providers ignored them, provoking a warning from the Attorney General’s office they could be charged with fraud and deceptive business practices.
For those ISPs undertake to discourage child porn in their customer service agreements. Verizon, for example, warns its users that they risk losing their service if they transmit or disseminate sexually exploitative images of children.
Verizon and Time Warner Cable are two of the nation’s five largest service providers, with roughly 16 million customers between them, New York Times reports.
“You can’t help but look at this material and not be disturbed,” said Attorney General Mark Cuomo, who promised to take up the issue during his 2006 campaign. “These are 4-year-olds, 5-year-olds, assault victims, there are animals in the pictures,” he added. “To say ‘graphic’ and ‘egregious’ doesn’t capture it.”
The companies have agreed to shut down access to newsgroups that traffic in pornographic images of children on one of the oldest outposts of the Internet, known as Usenet. Usenet began nearly 30 years ago and was one of the earliest ways to swap information online, but as the World Wide Web blossomed, Usenet was largely supplanted by it, becoming a favored back alley for those who traffic in illicit material.
The service providers’ move come in the wake of a sting operation launched by the New York Attorney General's office.
When agents posing as customers complained they could see child porn, the service providers ignored them, provoking a warning from the Attorney General’s office they could be charged with fraud and deceptive business practices.
For those ISPs undertake to discourage child porn in their customer service agreements. Verizon, for example, warns its users that they risk losing their service if they transmit or disseminate sexually exploitative images of children.
Verizon and Time Warner Cable are two of the nation’s five largest service providers, with roughly 16 million customers between them, New York Times reports.
“You can’t help but look at this material and not be disturbed,” said Attorney General Mark Cuomo, who promised to take up the issue during his 2006 campaign. “These are 4-year-olds, 5-year-olds, assault victims, there are animals in the pictures,” he added. “To say ‘graphic’ and ‘egregious’ doesn’t capture it.”
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