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Yahoo! Closes User Created Chat Rooms
karvind writes "Chatmag News reports that Yahoo! has disabled all the User-created Chat rooms. According to Yahoo's chat log page:'The ability to publish user-created chat rooms in the public Yahoo! Chat directory is currently unavailable. We are working on improvements to this service to enhance the user experience and compliance with our Terms of Service'. This may be true but Yahoo! is also facing a $10 million lawsuit that accuses it of cashing in on some disturbing chat rooms. The companies are paying huge fees for their ads to appear on Yahoo!. But many are now canceling those ads because of the report."
Well, obviously since something bad can happen we should shut down all the channels. No, it really doesn't make sense to just shut down the dangerous channels. While we are at it, you know I hear pedophiles drive around in vans trying to lure kids into their van with candy. I say we put an immediate BAN on vans and candy. As a side, the true predators out there only use the chat rooms to locate their prey (something that can be done without the chat rooms, for example: All those livejournal kids with their aim names on their pages). After that, the bastards go in for the kill in PMs, something I doubt very much that AOL is going to ban on AIM.
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