ISPs Join to Block Child Porn

July 13, 2008 – 10:39 AM

AT&T Inc. and AOL LLC have joined three other major Internet service providers in eliminating access to child pornography newsgroups, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Friday.

In June, Verizon Communications Inc., Time-Warner Cable and Sprint Nextel Corp. signed an agreement with Cuomo to shut down access to two major sources of child pornography.

Like those ISPs, AT&T and AOL will also rid their servers of child porn Web sites, according to a statement from Cuomo’s office.

“AT&T takes its obligation to protect its customers from child pornography very seriously, and we’re happy to work with Attorney General Cuomo’s office and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the effort to help prevent the distribution of this harmful and abusive content,” said AT&T spokesman Marty Richter in an e-mail.

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