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Agreement with ISPs to Block Child Pornography

By Corey Rayburnyung

Cuomo has announced an agreement with 3 ISP's to block access to certain websites that post child pornography. Here is the story from the Washington Post:Three of the nation's major Internet service providers have agreed to block customer access to newsgroups and Web sites that offer child pornography, according to an agreement announced yesterday by the New York attorney general's office. The agreements, which were hailed by child-welfare advocates as a significant step, push the service providers to take a more active role in monitoring what takes place over their lines. But by forcing providers to act as censors, the agreements may also violate the First Amendment, free-speech advocates said. Under the deals with Sprint Nextel, Verizon Communications and Time Warner Cable, which are expected to hold nationwide, the companies agreed to shut off access to newsgroups believed to traffic in child pornography and to remove from their servers any Web sites offering such images...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).