a broad attack on cyber liberties

According to this article from CNET, the New York Attorney General as made and aggreement with major broadband providers that would shut down access to Usenet for their customers. Time Warner Cable will cut it off completely while Sprint will get rid off the alt.* Usenet newsgroups and finally Verizon's plan is to eliminate some "fairly broad newsgroup areas."

My initial thoughts about this are that the agreement is going to infringe on the the freedom of expression of thousands of legitimate newsgroups and I would even consider it an attack on the right to assemble. It's all just a little disturbing and very ineffective as far as policy goes.