Broadband Reports has been on the case since at least this summer, when it ran such headlines as
Fight Child Porn By...Doing Nothing Differently
NY Attorney General's words are but wind...
and
Latest Child Porn Fight Mostly Empty Rhetoric
While raising the specter of ISP as content babysitter...
NY AG Will Sue Comcast If They Don't Pretend To Fight Child Porn
Hurry up and do absolutely nothing differently, or face the consequences....
The articles noted that Cuomo, a publicity hound, was working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an organization that issues plenty of press releases but has never, as far as I know, saved a single child. In my opinion, they're a piece of quasi governmental bureaucracy with a flashy name. By using up resources that could be better allocated, they do harm, not good.
The NCMEC and Cuomo pressured AOL into using the NCMEC's list of bad web sites, but BBR quoted this article, which notes:
There's just one problem with the press release. AOL isn't doing anything different today than it did yesterday. "We have not changed any policies or procedures as part of today's announcement," AOL spokeswoman Allie Burns told me via e-mail.