Three ISPs Agree To Block Child Porn - Boon or Slippery Slope?

by Mikasi | June 10, 2008 at 04:47 pm

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Goobergunchand other readers sent in word that Sprint, Time Warner, and Verizonhave agreed to block websites and newsgroups containing childpornography. The deal, brokered by New York Attorney General AndrewCuomo, occurred after Cuomo's office threatened the ISPs with fraudcharges. It's of some concern that the blacklist of sites andnewsgroups is to be maintained by the Center for Missing andExploited Children, an NGO with no legal requirement fortransparency.

While authors don't question the motive they do dispute see threepossible problems here -

How long it will be before other groups want "their" topics blacklisted from the web?
Will this move simply be negated in the courts like just as a similar law was in Pennsylvania?
Will this move actually be effective for getting rid of child porn?

The general consensus on the answers are