Verizon Cutting Access To Entire Alt.* Usenet Hierarchy

modemac writes "Verizon has declared it will no longer offer access to the entire alt.* hierarchy of Usenet newsgroups to its customers. This stems from last week's agreement for major ISPs to cut off access to 'newsgroups and Web sites' that make child pornography available. The story notes, 'No law requires Verizon to do this. Instead, the company (and, to varying extents, Time Warner Cable and Sprint) agreed to restrictions on Usenet in response to political strong-arming by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat. Cuomo claimed that his office found child porn on 88 newsgroups — out of roughly 100,000 newsgroups that exist.' In response, Verizon will cut its customers off from a large portion of Usenet, as it will only carry newsgroups in the Big 8."

Nanny Verizon

[sciop101]

Will Verizon make sure all eat right, bathe occasionally, wipe their ass in the proper direction?

obviously thought through

[Slotty]

Because there is obviously no other purpose for alt.* on usenet other than kiddie porn.

Political stunt for the win!!!

Competition?

[getuid()]

What happened, pissed off because alt.sex.fetish.piss-on-your-customers is already claimed by T-Com?...

quick...

[msauve]

Someone upload some child porn to the Verizon billing site.

Re:so what

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the issue for many people is more about being blocked from accessing the alt.binaries.* groups, of which Google Groups doesn't provide access (well, not to the actual binary files at least).

HAH! Caught you red-handed, paedophile. It's a well-known fact that alt.binaries.* is a haven for sadists sharing in UNDERAGE EXECUTABLES. Binaries with creation dates less than 3 previous have been found distributed over this network of filth. Hang your head in shame.

Actual Verizon Business Discussion:

[WDot]

Suit: So Cocks called.
John: Cocks?
Suit: Yeah, Cocks. The network for the ballsiest.
Anyway, they want to be hooked up to our digital cable service. What's the capacity on our system right now?
John: Well we still have 50% of our bandwidth av--
Suit: Sweet Virgin Mary! Only 50%? Who's eating up all our bandwidth?
John: Well it's mostly HD football channels, and then peer to peer, and then Usenet.
Suit: Well, we sure as hell can't get rid of the football, and you were supposed to block peer to peer anyway! What in God's name is Usenet?
John: It's a bulletin board system where people can share files.
Suit: Well drop it! I'm not going to limit quality programming for some godless file sharing faggots.
John: But how do we explain that we're arbitrarily dropping a significant portion of our service?
Suit: What are you, stupid? Just say what we always say: we found child porn. Why do I pay you if I do all the thinking?

in other news...

[just_forget_it]

In other news, automobiles were banned from expressways today in an effort to curb alcoholism once and for all. Items also banned today were kitchen knives amid concerns of forced penis removal, horseback riding in an effort to promote the chastity of young ladies, and bedsheets due to fears of beds not being made.

Re:obviously thought through

[mememe]

Because there is obviously no other purpose for alt.*

alt.verizon-sucks
alt.verizon-sucks.dick
alr.verizon-sucks.ass

Re:quick...

[rubah]

well, that's no problem, just log onto usenet and . . .uh never mind.

Re:alt.binaries.*

[something_wicked_thi]

Exactly. Maybe September will finally end, too.

Re:Wipe their ass in the proper direction?

[thePowerOfGrayskull]

For sanitary reasons, the female of the species should always wipe front to back. (It also seems awkward for the male to do it any other way, but it's not something that's 'required')

The real surprise . . .

[hawk]

The real surprise is that this happened on the first day in three weeks that a non-pornographic image was posted to the alt.binaries hierarchy . . .

hawk

Re:Wipe their ass in the proper direction?

[D'Sphitz]

I like to wipe back to front, it makes my balls smell nice.

Re:Nanny Verizon

[larry bagina]

Bidet? Barbarians...

Real men get a rimjob from their toilet slave.

Re:I'm surprised it took this long

[S-100]

I'm shocked, shocked that file sharing is going on here. Round up the usenet servers and have them shot.

Re:Wipe their ass in the proper direction?

[Herkum01]

I don't think the question is, does your balls smell nice; the question is how did check?

Re:alt.binaries.*

[michrech]

Next, we'll need a name.

I have a few ideas..

CompuServe
AOL
Prodigy

What?

Maybe we should change the internet, so that users can't communicate which each other directly.

Content can be published by companies though. And instead of URLs, we will have a menu system provided with a desktop application.

We could call this application "Information Manager", and lookup information using keywords.

That'd rock! And it could be absolutely porn-free.

Re:alt.binaries.*

[mrogers]

Looks like September is finally coming to an end...

Re:Wipe their ass in the proper direction?

[luder]

Hmm, natural fertilizer. Is that the secret to penis enlargement?

Re:Binary groups

[Minwee]

And bad things could happen with alt.sysadmin.recovery gone.

Very bad things...

Yes indeed. Now what did that fellow from Verizon say his username was?

And the name of the network he was on? And who was he peering with again?

Ah, yes. <clickity-click>

Re:Nanny Verizon

[plasmacutter]

none of you know how to use the 3 seashells?!

*rolls on the floor laughing*

Re:Logical progression:

[Phroggy]

Well, if they halt all e-mail service coming out of their network, it would cut down on the spam received by the rest of us...