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Great, why not stick to Usenet now? Why did it become less popular?
by belltaco 7y ago
Great, why not stick to Usenet now? Why did it become less popular?
- u801e 7y agoMy best guess is the fact that most ISPs discontinued their usenet feeds around the time that Andrew Cuomo (back when he was the Attorney General of New York) came to an agreement with a number of ISPs to block access to child porn in certain newsgroups[1]. [1] https://www.cnet.com/news/n-y-attorney-general-forces-isps-to-curb-usenet-access/ https://www.cnet.com/news/n-y-attorney-general-forces-isps-t...