What kind of changes have been made in ISP policies?
“Time Warner Cable said it will cease to offer customers access to any Usenet newsgroups” (CNET News). “Sprint said it would no longer offer any of the tens of thousands of alt.* Usenet newsgroups” (CNET News). Verizon’s plan is to eliminate some “fairly broad newsgroup areas” (CNET News)–Verizon will provide only newsgroups in the Big-8 plus its own hierarchy. AT&T will cease offering the alt.binaries.* hierarchy. Comcast is rumored to be dropping all newsgroups. AOL was included in Cuomo’s press release, but stopped offering Usenet access three years ago. It will continue to remove images and [materials] identified as child-porn offenders by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
