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Date Added: June 12, 2008 12:08:05 PM
In an agreement reached with the attorney general's office of New York, three service providers agreed to begin blocking access to web sites and bulleting boards associated with child pornography . Time-Warner Cable, Verizon and Sprint all agreed to shut down access to news groups and World Wide Web sites, something most ISPs had resisted in the past, claiming service providers were not ...

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