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In June 2008, it was announced that [[Sprint Nextel|Sprint]] and [[Verizon]] would be cutting off access to the alt.* hierarchy to their subscribers, citing [[child pornography]] as the number one reason. New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo claimed his office found child porn in 88 of the 100,000 groups that exist on alt.*.<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9964895-38.html N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access] - Politics and Law - CNET News (June 10, 2008 12:09 PM PDT)Posted by Declan McCullagh</ref><ref>[http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN0930574820080611 Internet companies to block child porn sites] - (Technology) Reuters - Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:04pm BST (Reporting by Christopher Kaufman and Yinka Adegoke; Editing by Louise Heavens and Braden Reddall)</ref><ref>[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967119-38.html Verizon offers details of Usenet deletion: alt.* groups, others gone] - June 12, 2008 11:37 AM PDT Posted by Declan McCullagh (The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology) - CNET News.com</ref>
Verizon has not blocked alt.* from users, they have simply stopped maintaining the alt.* hierarchy on their own servers. Verizon subscribers can still access the alt.* hierarchy through a third-party Usenet service.
In the same time frame, AT&T's United States-based consumer dial internet service provider decommissioned their NNTP servers entirely, citing a combination of the above concerns and a putative decline in traffic volume which had accelerated beyond a statistical point of no return.
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