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____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 17 October 2008 21:37 : \____
> On Oct 17, 8:12 am, "Moshe Goldfarb." <brick.n.st...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:28:54 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> > MedinTux needs french to english translators to spread worldwide
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>> Why are Linux users always begging for something?
>
> Why indeed? We should just accept Microsoft standards
> and have done with it. After all, Microsoft knows
> best (as it is by far the biggest software company ever).
>
> (Yes, Teranews is borked again.)
Maybe it's just down and they don't bother fixing it because of neo-fascists
that decided to censor USENET with defensible excuses.
Comcast to shut down free Usenet access
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| Comcast is just the latest of the large ISPs to buckle under to MAFIAA
| pressure from the music and movie cartels, but that doesn't mean that they
| deserve to get away with this.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/07/comcast-shut-free-usenet-access
Usenet: Not Dead Yet
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| Over the last few years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
| and other organizations looking to eliminate the illegal swapping of digital
| media files have attacked the problem through the courts, publicity
| campaigns, and other means.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151989-1/usenet_not_dead_yet.html
Comcast, NetZero latest providers to bow to Cuomo's Usenet campaign
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| But in reality, Cuomo's pressure tactics have misfired. They led Time Warner
| Cable to pull the plug on some 100,000 Usenet discussion groups, including
| such hotbeds of illicit content as talk.politics and
| misc.activism.progressive. Verizon Communications deleted such unlawful
| discussion groups as us.military, ny.politics, alt.society.labor-unions, and
| alt.politics.democrats. AT&T and Time Warner Cable have taken similar steps.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10002624-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Verizon offers details of Usenet deletion: alt.* groups, others gone
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| Cuomo claimed that his office found child porn on 88 newsgroups--out of
| roughly 100,000 newsgroups that exist. In a press release, he took credit for
| the companies' blunderbuss-style newsgroup removal by saying: "We are
| attacking this problem by working with Internet service providers...I commend
| the companies that have stepped up today to embrace a new standard of
| responsibility, which should serve as a model for the entire industry."
|
| [...]
|
| What this means in practice is that, thanks to the New York state attorney
| general, Verizon customers will lose out on innocent discussions. Verizon is
| retaining only eight newsgroup hierarchies, even though over 1,000
| hierarchies exist.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967119-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Usenet Villified In NY Deal With ISPs
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| Time Warner Cable will turn off all newsgroup access, while Sprint plans to
| cut access to the whole alt.* segment. Verizon may follow Sprint's example.
|
| Blocking all newsgroups does appear to be a broad approach to a problem
| involving a minority of such groups. As with the Internet in general, not
| everything in Usenet poses a threat. But no one wants to be tainted with even
| a suggestion of being soft on child porn, hence the rush to apply censorship
| with a sweeping axe rather than a skillfully-wielded scalpel.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/06/11/usenet-villified-in-ny-deal-with-isps
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Vista - Windows for zombies (and human beings)
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