wmcbrine
Touched by His Noodly Appendage
join:2002-12-30
Laurel, MD
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June 11th, @11:45AM
| reply to Corydon
Re: The blocks are reasonable.
said by Corydon  :Considering how phenomenally rare actual sexual abuse of children by strangers is (on the order of 1 in a million), I often wonder just what agenda is really being pushed here (Cui bono? as L. Cassius used to say). Yeah. I heard the most phenomenally absurd claims about this story on my local "News Channel 8" last night -- they said, with a straight face, that child porn was "a billion-dollar business" and "the fastest-growing business on the Internet". I don't think they even attributed these credulous statements.
Then I got an updated Terms of Service from Verizon last night with a clause about child porn. But I'm not sure it really does anything that they weren't already doing... I don't have access to it right now; I'll post it later.
I suspect that the entire abuse issue is a red herring used to chip away at the First Amendment by the usual suspects pushing their idea of a culture war. No kidding... it's been used for perhaps fourteen years now as the pretext for sweeping attacks on the Internet.
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wmcbrine
Touched by His Noodly Appendage
join:2002-12-30
Laurel, MD
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June 11th, @09:37PM
| Here's the Terms of Service update from Verizon:
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1. Reporting of Actual or Potential Violations of Child Pornography Laws. We have added language to our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) making clear that the Service cannot be used in any fashion for the transmission or dissemination of images containing child pornography. In addition, in Section 5, Privacy Policy; Legal Compliance, we have added language making clear that (a) we are required by law to report any facts or circumstances reported to us or which we discover from which it appears there may be a violation of the child pornography laws; and (b) that we reserve the right to report any such information, including the identity of users, account information, images and other facts to law enforcement personnel.
(The "1" is because this was just point one of five in the message, the others relating to billing, etc.) Nothing about blocking here, nor anything else proactive.
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wmcbrine
Touched by His Noodly Appendage
join:2002-12-30
Laurel, MD
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June 12th, @10:41PM
| Well, I take it back -- I've just read on 0.verizon.announce that Verizon is planning to drop the alt.* hierarchy, just like Sprint. This is shocking overkill... although it will certainly spare them a lot of resources.
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