Why Is Andrew Cuomo Pushing ISPs To Use Spyware On Everyones Internet Traffic?
We’ve already covered NY AG Andrew Cuomo’s ridiculous crusade to get ISPs to censor content in a misguided attempt to stop child porn. Obviously, stopping child porn is a good goal, but Cuomo’s approach actually makes the problem worse and sets a dangerous precedent. First, rather than actually tackling the root of the problem, Cuomo simply demanded that ISPs block any site that he and a group he supports consider to be child porn. Of course, they have no legal requirement to block them (section 230 of the CDA was written to make it clear that ISPs are not at all liable here), but Cuomo got around that by promising to shame publicly any ISP that didn’t implement his plan. This is the lowest of the low of political tricks, and it would simply be lying. An ISP may be quite committed to stomping out child porn, and could recognize that Cuomo’s tactics actually make the problem worse, by not targeting the actual pornographers — and Cuomo would still publicly splash their names across the
