As announced by New York Attorney Gen. Andrew M. Cuomo yesterday, AT&T and AOL are the latest companies to join the fight against child pornography. The two recently agreed to eliminate all child porn news groups found on their Internet servers.

These news groups are known for significantly contributing to the huge archives of illegal images.

AT&T, the largest Internet Service Provider in the United States, and AOL, the country’s third largest, join the on-going efforts of Verizon, Time Warner and Sprint.

"These agreements with two of the nation's largest ISPs to eradicate child porn websites from their servers tighten the noose around this despicable trade," Mr. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement. He also added that the example of the two should be followed by all of the nation’s Internet Providers, as children must be protected in any way possible from these horrible activities.

The Attorney General ended the topic with a presentation of his new nystopchildrenporn.com website, which is meant to help consumers find the ways of clearing the Internet of photos involving child pornography. It features a list with all the Internet Service Providers helping with the child porn photo issue and also explains the ways of getting in contact with other ISPs that haven’t joined the movement.

In addition to these measures, there have been discussions with social networking Web sites such as MySpace and Facebook to enhance protections against online sexual predators.

The decision to enforce the efforts in this direction came after Mr. Andrew Cuomo’s office reviewed more than 1 million photos over a period of several months and found about 88 newsgroups listing over 11,300 photos with children in inappropriate postures.