This is my employer's ISP.
They're in the next office park over.
(The site was apparently quikvue.com, judging by whois. I'm not dumb enough to try loading it at work, KTNX.)
Update: Two things. One that I said in a comment below, but bears clarity here:
It sounds to me like they're saying that Voicenet ran a newsfeed, in which they included alt.binaries.erotic.. Then they built a web interface for paying customers to view the newsgroups more easily. They seem to be considered remiss because they didn't regularly keep track of new pr0n groups and filter any that might have kiddy porn. I don't like the implications for my free speech one damn bit, I'll tell you that much. (Note that my problem isn't with child pornography laws–though I'll spin you a logical argument against those, if you like–it's with making censorship Voicenet's responsibility, and failure to do so a crime. They neither created nor posted this material, they merely didn't mange to filter it.)
Second, the network guy here at work saw the ABC news trucks out in front of Voicenet's building yesterday and shot an email to a friend of his who works there saying (note the total lack of mention of kiddy porn) “What, you guys get caught playing with Pringles cans or something?” (that's an 802.11 reference, not some bizarre sex act). He got a response email from Voicenet's lawyer, and a follow up voicemail just now. Oh yeah, they're scared of losing customers.
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