AT&T and AOL block child porn newsgroups

[RawAlex]

Toby, it's like not listing girls with pigtails... it isn't solving the problem outright, but it is certainly making it less of an issue. Removing newsgroup access to a significant number of websurfers, and forcing them to pay for access through a third party certainly changes the dynamic of the situation.

If those ISPs apply that to their entire network, millions of US citizens will stop having free ranging access to the one of the webs biggest open sewers, the newsgroups (and particularly the CP ones). It is a step in the right direction.