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."

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Re:I have no sympathy for the family

[agent dero]

omfg liek wtfwtf, think of teh childran!!!!!11 lol hahah jk jk

Shows you what $10,000 U.S. will get you

[micheas]

From the article:

"Short of changes in the law in Congress, we may be limited about what we can do in this area," U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said.

Gonzales told the station he can't use the laws now on the books to shut down Yahoo!'s child sex site. But back in 2002, the station broke the story when federal officials shut down a Web site called "Candyman" with those existing laws.

The "Candyman" site was geared only toward trading child sex pictures and stories, just like the Yahoo! rooms.

Call me cynical but I was suprised to find out that Yahoo! had given a mere
$10,000 to the Republican National Committe, and an equal amount to the Democratice National Committe.

Personally, I suspected larger more frequent donations were required to keep the current administration paid off.

Unless, Alberto Gonzales is allowing Kiddie Porn to further his own political agenda. Personally, I hope that the current administration is just cheap. The alternative of the Bush administration not prosecuting kiddie porn because it will make a new bill easier to get passed, ... do I even need to go on?