Politicians Are Using Kids As Props To Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation. Don’t Let Them Get Away With It::Amidst all of the attention paid to last week’s Senate hearing on child safety online, it remains stunning just how little time was actually spent on how to help children online. Instead, we saw pure theatrical nonsense, with Senators insisting (falsely) that these five tech CEOs could magically stop bad things from happening to kids,

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    More proof that kids ruin everything

    ISPs taking away newsgroups

    Pornhub deleting everything

    Craigslist personals going bye bye

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        They took them away many years ago.

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          I still use Newsgroups for sailing the digital seas. 🤷‍♂️

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            I believe what they are referring to is that access to them is no longer included in your isp package like email is, and requires additional payment, usually to a different company.

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            Your ISPs, or do you pay for a third party like TweakNews or UsenetExpress?

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              I pay for one. I wasn’t aware ISPs ever provided them. TIL. I thought the comment meant they blocked usenets you pay for.

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                Yeah, believe it or not they would come free from your ISP, back in the day. Those were the days.