Three of the largest internet service providers agreed on Wednesday to block child pornography newsgroups and other related materials from their servers, according to a report by the Associated Press. The three companies, Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable, also agreed to pay just over $1.1 million to help eliminate child pornography across the Internet.

The move, announced in a statement by Andrew Cuomo, the Attorney General for the state of New York, came after an undercover investigation of child pornography newsgroups. According to Cuomo, the investigation is still ongoing.

All three companies involved had something to say on the issue:

“Online child pornography represents one of the worst abuses of the Internet,” said Time Warner Cable Senior Vice President and Chief Ethics Officer Jeff Zimmerman. He said Time Warner Cable is removing newsgroups from its service.

“By shutting down offending newsgroups and contributing to funds that will combat child pornography online, we are working to remove this content permanently,” said Verizon Deputy General Counsel Tom Dailey.

“We are doing our part to deter the accessibility of such harmful content through the internet and we are providing monetary resources that will go toward the identification and removal of online child pornography,” said Sprint Senior Public Affairs Manager Matthew Sullivan. “We embrace this opportunity to build upon our own long-standing commitment to online child safety.”

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