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."

Comments

Distubring stuff in chat rooms?

[ErikTheRed]

On the Internet? Really?

I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

Re:Distubring stuff in chat rooms?

[fuzzybunny]

This is awesome.

A guy posts his (supposed, but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt) girlfriend's lingerie site on Slashdot.

Its presence in his .sig is questioned, ok, so far so good.

Comment is made on the niceness of her "uh, creations". Ibid, nothing new there.

And the discussion ends up at his photographic technique.

I love the Internet.

OH NO!!!!

[unknown_goth]

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....

Poo on Joo!!!

[Safety Cap]

Parenting iz too haaarrd!

Make the gobment do it!!!!!111

Re:Glad to hear it

[PhreakinPenguin]

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!!"

Re:This is really too bad,

[dancingmad]

. 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.

Re:Glad to hear it

[pyrrhonist]

Middle aged me showing their wanks to kids is the problem.

A freudian slip is where you say one thing and mean your mother^W^Wanother.

Re:I have no sympathy for the family

[squiggleslash]

osama101: so, when we put our plan into operation, the infidels will tremble in fear and have no choice but to cede our demands!
evlhnchmn21: *lol* *LOL* *LOLOL* The West will tremble and beg for our mercy!
osama101: *rofl* *ROFL* *LOL* They will never guess a plot they've already seen on their television show "24"!
sidekick60: *LOL* Except done correctly with technology that actually exists, of course!
*** nycmale23 has entered channel #Al-Queda
nycmale23: ne1 want to cyber?
osama101: go away
nycmale23: osama101 a/s/l?
evlhnchmn21: wtf?