Thursday, June 23, 2005
Some Yahoo chat rooms closed
Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms After Some Used to Promote Sex With Minors By Greg Sandoval - The Associated Press - Reacting to angry protests from several of its top sponsors, Yahoo Inc. has pulled the plug on perhaps hundreds of chat rooms operating on its site after a media report revealed that some of the rooms were used to promote sex with minors...
...stopped advertising on Yahoo after they were informed that adults were attempting to lure children into sexual encounters within some of Yahoo's user-created chat rooms, according to a report by KPRC-TV in Houston...
...How long the chat rooms that allegedly promoted sex with minors have operated is unclear. Yahoo does not monitor the content in the chat rooms, but will close a room if it receives complaints, Osako said...
Geez! Years ago, I used to chat a bit in some of the AOL chat rooms, but it was all just normal chat. If chatters cursed, they would be reminded of the TOS. If they wasted the thread by putting the computer generated characters to make pictures, they were also reminded of the TOS. It looks like in the Yahoo problem, there were no monitors because the rooms were made by customers, instead of the Yahoo-created rooms. I'm glad Yahoo closed the rooms. What is really bizarre, though, is that they didn't close them until the advertisers became angry!
...stopped advertising on Yahoo after they were informed that adults were attempting to lure children into sexual encounters within some of Yahoo's user-created chat rooms, according to a report by KPRC-TV in Houston...
...How long the chat rooms that allegedly promoted sex with minors have operated is unclear. Yahoo does not monitor the content in the chat rooms, but will close a room if it receives complaints, Osako said...
Geez! Years ago, I used to chat a bit in some of the AOL chat rooms, but it was all just normal chat. If chatters cursed, they would be reminded of the TOS. If they wasted the thread by putting the computer generated characters to make pictures, they were also reminded of the TOS. It looks like in the Yahoo problem, there were no monitors because the rooms were made by customers, instead of the Yahoo-created rooms. I'm glad Yahoo closed the rooms. What is really bizarre, though, is that they didn't close them until the advertisers became angry!
