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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.
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