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> No ISP I have used in recent years does. They have all been switched off, with the ISP citing low levels of use.

The event that lead to a lot of ISPs dropping their NNTP service was when Andrew Cuomo, when he was the attorney general of New York, made a deal with several ISPs to block access to child porn[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/technology/10iht-net.1.13...



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