Re: Orwell

[Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>]

How does one sieze an ISP?

A couple of machines used to forward UseNet traffic were impounded with 
the cooperation of the service providors. Get your shit straight.

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Pallas Anonymous Remailer wrote:

> Some US ISP's were seized in a cyberporn bust.
> 
> Dreamscape's statement at:
> 
> http://www.dreamscape.com/dream98/statement.htm
> 
> Buffnet's at:
> 
> http://www.buffnet.com/ag/
> 
> Vacco's at:
> 
> http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/oct98/oct28_98.html
> 
> All three worth reading. This could be a big story. The theory against
> the ISPs (not that they've been charged with a crime) is that they
> knowingly carried the newsgroups:
> 
> alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen
> alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.early-teen
> 
> This has broader application -- alt.binaries.warez.*,
> alt.binaries.sounds.mp3, etc.
> 
> Is any ISP which carries suspect newsgroups at risk of having 
> its equiptment seized, and who draws up the blacklist of 
> newsgroups?
> 
> Or worse, is there no public blacklist at all -- just the
> hovering fear of an up-for-reelection AG swooping down. And when
> do naughty pictures start showing up in alt.fan.disney? And
> what's the AG's move then?
> 
>