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Yahoo! Closes User Created Chat Rooms

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-so-hooful dept.

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."

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  1. Distubring stuff in chat rooms? by ErikTheRed · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the Internet? Really?

    I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

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    1. Re:Distubring stuff in chat rooms? by fuzzybunny · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

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  2. OH NO!!!! by unknown_goth · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  3. Poo on Joo!!! by Safety+Cap · · Score: 4, Funny
    Parenting iz too haaarrd!

    Make the gobment do it!!!!!111

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  4. Re:Glad to hear it by pyrrhonist · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

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  5. Re:I have no sympathy for the family by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Funny
    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?
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