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Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's Campaign to Fight Child Pornography Leads to Top ISPs Signing onto Code of Conduct
The Internet is a useful tool, but it also serves as an outpost for the illicit and sordid exchange of pornographic images of children.
An undercover investigation by the Office of the Attorney General revealed major sources of child pornography on online public bulletin boards known as Newsgroups. Following the investigation, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo developed a Code of Conduct for the Internet industry designed to stop the spread of online child pornography through these Newsgroups and illegal Web sites.
Every major Internet Service Provider in the country, including AT&T, Comcast, America Online, Verizon, Time Warner and Sprint, have signed the code to stop child pornography.
Under these agreements, the Internet Service Providers are eliminating access to child porn Newsgroups and also purging their servers of Web sites that have been identified as child porn sites by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
On nystopchildporn.com, you can see if your Internet Service Provider has signed the Attorney General’s code of conduct to combat child pornography, and you can urge the companies that have not signed to immediately do so.
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Internet Service Providers that have signed agreements with the Attorney General's Office to fight online child pornography:
Cablevision
• No. 10 ISP in the country with 2.3 million subscribers
• Cablevision is available in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut
• NY State Presence: Brooklyn, Nassau, Poughkeepsie, Suffolk, Westchester
Earthlink
• No. 7 ISP in the US with 3.6 million subscribers nationally
• EarthLink is available in all 50 states
• 3.7% national market share
• NY State Presence: High Speed throughout most of NY State, except for Utica and Westchester where dial-up and satellite services are available.
• Contact Info: (301) 428-5500
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