When Eliot Spitzer was New York's attorney general, he went after white collar crooks and prostitutes. Now that Andrew Cuomo has taken the helm, he's made turning the Internet into a safe playground for kids a top priority. First he went after Facebook, for allowing lax privacy policies that might let kids become the real-life victims of a To Catch a Predator episode. And now he's heavy handed Internet service providers including Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner, to block websites that are known to traffic in kiddie porn.

That the online newsgroups where child porn pics and videos are traded are so widely known, and that these ISPs could pretty easily identify customers who visited them, is one thing. The other thing is how Atty. Gen. Cuomo described his relationship with kiddie porn: "You can’t help but look at this material and not be disturbed." Well, some folks can help to look at it, but that's just us.