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Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms to Anyone Under 18

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-chat-for-you-kid dept.

Talaria writes "Yahoo has announced that they are closing all of their chat rooms to anyone under eighteen, following an agreement with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer, who began investigating the Yahoo! chat situation earlier this year, said "We need to be vigilant to protect our children.""

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  1. Age Verification? by MMHere · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So two hundred people are going to say this, I'll try to be first:

    There is no real way to verify a Yahoo account-holders age when s/he registers. If the kidz want in, they'll simply lie when they type in their age.

    Once inside, they can tell the pedophile that they are "12 and cute..."

    Is Spitzer really unaware of this? If he is aware, then this is simply another headline to aid in his eventual goal of running for governor, then president...

  2. Won't somebody.... by UNOStudent · · Score: 0, Redundant

    PLEASE think of the children?!

  3. Re:Won't somebody think of the children? by F_Scentura · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "It's the idiot masses that keep the wheels of society turning. They're the ones doing all the work that puts food on your table. The soeciety would collapse without them. On the other hand, people who think themselves very smart (such as yourself) and everyone else beneath them, usually contribute nothing but occasional genocide, mass-sterilization program or other form of evil and injustice with no purpose other than glorifying themselves in their own eyes."

    The masses are certainly important, however claiming that the self-ascribed elite "usually" contribute nothing or nothing but evil is a specious assumption. These broad and baseless claims don't help your cause.