Sacramento, Calif.
- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Edmund G. Brown
Jr. on Friday asked California's
Internet service providers to follow the lead of Verizon, Time Warner Cable and
Sprint by "removing child pornography from existing servers and blocking channels"
that disseminate the illegal material. Earlier this month, the three ISPs
announced an agreement with New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, under
which they would eliminate access to child pornography newsgroups on Usenet,
and also purge any existing child pornography on their servers.
"We
applaud three of the world's largest Internet service providers -- Verizon,
Time Warner Cable, and Sprint-for taking steps to block access to child
pornography," Schwarzenegger and Brown wrote in a letter to the California
Internet Service Provider Association, which represents more than 100 ISPs in
California.
"It is not enough, however, for only a few Internet service
providers to join the fight against online predators. Child pornography is not
protected by the First Amendment, and distributing this material is
illegal."
Some groups, including the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU), caution that eliminating access to all newsgroups -- as Time
Warner Cable and AOL have done -- or even some broad swaths of newsgroups, as
the other ISPs plan, would likely eliminate access for consumers to many
legitimate sites.
Related Links:
http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/9933
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9973966-7.html
http://www.cispa.org
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