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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."
On the Internet? Really?
I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
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I dont think there even is a "hot chatroom spot". Frankly, Yahoo chat and AOL chat etc are just full of 12 year olds and 52 year olds all going "OMG LAWLZ WAHT DO YUO LOOUK LIEK??!"
Now where will all the 14 year old blonde lesbian goth chicks with piercings, and a fetish for cybering do once they clock off from work and head home to the wife and kids... .... so sad. . . soo truely sad it is....
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Honestly, years ago before AOL went to the unlimited hours plan, the chat rooms on AOL used to be a more fun, more intelligent space, but I believe that's because mostly it was adults who were paying $2.95/hr to be there. So they made it more worth their while thus making it better for everyone else there. But as soon as they went to that free for all, the floodgates were opened wide with the kids and the "a/s/l" "if yoor a gurl and wanna have hot sex press 11111". Ah, the good old days....wait, did I just say something good about AOL? Damn! What's come over me?
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Of course Al-queda has a chatroom. Al-queda is EVERYWHERE. Only people who hate America don't know that. I think there is even a Yahoo Chat clause in the Patriot act somewhere.
Make the gobment do it!!!!!111
Yeah, right.
So basically you don't want to eliminate the problem, you want to just keep people from knowing about it? Middle aged me showing their wanks to kids is the problem. Regardless if it's on Yahoo, MSN, the local movie theater, or wherever. It's a sad world we live it when someone prays on kids and people shout "Well the kids shouldn't have been there!!"
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So they could give a fuck if Al-queda had a chat room on there.
I can see it now..
user Jihad31337 entered chat.
Jihad31337: America sux0rz, a/s/l everyone?
. there were also lots of arabic rooms that the Al Queada may have been hanging out in, I can't really be sure because most were in arabic font
God bless you sir, for being American.
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What they found: people typing words to each other. Shocking!
I don't think so, stuff like...
hi2u, asl? kthxbi
1 4m t3h 1337 winn4r!
can be classified as words...
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Doesn't Yahoo filter the chatrooms based on age?
I've never visited one. If I had known, I still wouldn't have bothered with them. I have joined several of Yahoo's mailing lists on groups.yahoo.com.
When I signed up for the yahoo account, I put my age down as 2 years old.
The result is that I haven't seen any of the porn lists I've heard about.
They must think I'm about 6 or 7 by now.
To be fair, if you do enter, it's it just natural selection?
I mean, it's a room for creepy old men and the preteen children who would talk to them.
It's sort of like posting a sign "jumpin' cliff". Yeah, I suppose you could jump, but is it anyone's fault when you do?
It's been a long time.
....did anyone notice that Brawny (paper towels) was listed as an advertiser along with Diet Pepsi? Fat old dudes slurping down a 64oz Big Gulp and vainly attempting to clean the keyboard post chat session...the mind boggles. Now pass the Brawny so I can can clean up the mess caused by blowing my beverage through my nose all over my monitor.
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So Big Bad Corporation is to blame because it let's users create their own chat rooms. Notice how there's pretty much nothing about those who are creating and participating in those chatrooms. Why blame pedophiles when you can blame The Coporation?
What's next? "Big Bad Corporations banking on the use of baseball bats by the mob"?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
It's a sad world we live it when someone prays on kids and people shout "Well the kids shouldn't have been there!!"
Well, you shouldn't have taken them to that church to begin with!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Internet chat rooms: Where the men are men, the women are men and the 14 year girls are FBI agents.
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