Yahoo closes chat rooms over child sex concerns

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Yahoo Shuts Chat Rooms Amid Child sex
Concerns

Yahoo Shuts Chat Rooms Amid Child sex
Concerns 06/24/2005 08:27 PM
Yahoo Inc., the most-used Internet site, has shut down all its user-created Internet chat rooms amid concerns that adults were using the sites to try to have sex with minors. The giant Internet media company closed down those chat rooms and the ability to create new ones "in the past week," said Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako.

Chat rooms created and sponsored by Yahoo itself remain open, Osako said. The number of user-created chat rooms is variable at any given time and Yahoo does not track that figure, she said. The user-created chat rooms in question, where Internet users converse in real time, had names including "Girls 13 And Under For Older Guys" and "Girls 13 And Up For Much Older Men" and were all listed under "education chat rooms," Houston television station KPRC reported.

News source: Reuters

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Yahoo closes chat rooms

Yahoo closes chat rooms 06/24/2005 03:05 PM

Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms Used for Sex
Talk

Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms Used for Sex
Talk 06/24/2005 03:02 PM
Reacting to protests from several of its top sponsors, Yahoo Inc. has pulled the plug on perhaps hundreds of chat rooms.

Police to listen into chat rooms

Police to listen into chat rooms 06/08/2004 11:33 PM
Police are to listen in to conversations on internet chat rooms in order to stop paedophiles grooming victims.

Police to spy into online chat rooms

Police to spy into online chat rooms 06/10/2004 04:20 PM
IT Vibe Jun 10 2004 7:45PM GMT

Police to patrol net chat rooms

Police to patrol net chat rooms 06/09/2004 03:56 PM
BBC Jun 9 2004 6:19PM GMT

Police to monitor chat rooms

Police to monitor chat rooms 06/09/2004 07:42 AM
International co-operation in paedo crackdown

Police to monitor net chat rooms

Police to monitor net chat rooms 06/09/2004 04:18 AM
BBC Jun 9 2004 7:41AM GMT

Police to monitor internet chat rooms

Police to monitor internet chat rooms 06/09/2004 01:52 PM
Guardian Unlimited Jun 9 2004 4:25PM GMT

Can AOL Be Forced To Put Safe Sex
Notices In Chat Rooms?

Can AOL Be Forced To Put Safe Sex
Notices In Chat Rooms? 01/22/2004 08:57 AM
An interesting battle is brewing between some health officials and AOL. The health officials are worried that people using chat rooms to set up real-life sexual encounters aren't doing anything to protect themselves during sex, and its leading to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases. Thus, they're trying to sue AOL to force them to put up safe-sex messages on those chat rooms. From a general community standpoint, that seems to make sense, but AOL has pretty good reasons for not doing it. As they point out, they're just setting up an open chat room system that anyone can use to chat about anything. They don't have the capability to determine which chat rooms are being used for these purposes, and they point out that users may get upset if they feel they're being spied on in some way. At the same time, there's simply no legal basis under which AOL should be compelled to post such a warning. Of course, taking a step back from all that, would anyone actually pay attention to such a warning?

China Cracks Down On Internet Chat Rooms

China Cracks Down On Internet Chat Rooms 03/28/2005 11:17 AM
Kdka.com - Mon Mar 28, 12:16 pm GMT

New Hampshire To Tax Instant Messaging,
Email And Chat Rooms

New Hampshire To Tax Instant Messaging,
Email And Chat Rooms 07/12/2004 12:14 PM
Brian writes in to point out that "New Hampshire's tax collecting agency w ants to apply a 7 percent tax on a variety of telephone and Internet services from chat rooms to voice mail." They also include web mail and instant messaging in the things that would be taxed. This is even more ridiculous than Florida's plans to tax your WiFi network. The New Hampshire "Department of Revenue Administration" tries to lamely justify this new tax, saying they're just updating old rules for new technologies, but can't seem to come up with a good justification for doing this... perhaps because there is no good justification for doing this.

Study Quantifies Dangers Of Online Chat
Rooms (Sort Of)

Study Quantifies Dangers Of Online Chat
Rooms (Sort Of) 06/01/2004 03:37 PM
Over in the UK, they seem positively obsessed with the dangers of internet chat rooms. We don't deny that there are dangers, but they seem to be blown way out of proportion. A little bit of education from parents and schools could solve an awful lot of the problems associated with chat rooms (and, in fact, that probably does solve many of the risks already for most families). Still, it seems you can't go a day without finding a sensationalistic story about the chatrooms, and now they're pushing a new study that claims to clearly demonstrate the dangers of chatrooms - but it all depends on your interpretation. They claim 7% of kids claim they've met in person with someone they first met online without telling their parents. First off, that's 7%. That means 93% haven't, which seems like a pretty good number. The article doesn't give many more details that will let you know much about those numbers either. What age is covered by "young people?" While it might be a bit scary if your 8-year-old is running off to the park to meet someone he or she doesn't know, there are plenty of teenagers savvy enough to be careful about what they're getting involved with. The other statistic is just as bad: 11% "felt uncomfortable" during an online chat. Again, they don't define the age range and they don't delve into exactly what made them uncomfortable. "Felt uncomfortable" is quite broad. I'm sure if I went into chat rooms with strangers I'd feel uncomfortable at times as well, but it wouldn't mean I'm in "danger."

How Does Blocking A Phone Number Protect
Children In Chat Rooms?

How Does Blocking A Phone Number Protect
Children In Chat Rooms? 06/01/2004 12:01 PM
A British mother has apparently won the "top award" at "the world's largest invention trade show" for her invention to help protect her daughter in online chat rooms. That sounds great, but it's not at all clear how the device she describes does anything to protect children in chat rooms. Perhaps it's the BBC reporting, but it appears the device can be used to prevent a phone from dialing a specific phone number. That's it. What that has to do with stopping a child from using an internet chat room is beyond me. The one (fairly small) benefit I can come up with is the ability to keep a fairly unsophisticated child from dialing up while a parent isn't around to watch them. After all, if the parents aren't home already, can't the kids just unplug the device? Besides once they got online they could just go to any chatroom they wanted. Besides, why use a device when you could just do it in software on the computer itself? Finally, with much of the world rushing rapidly towards broadband, this sort of device becomes even less useful. While the BBC article suggests the woman may make a "fortune" on the device, it's not entirely clear why. It seems this is just another attempt to jump on the fears of parents about what their kids might be doing online, without being at all useful.

Yahoo says closes Inktomi acquisition

Yahoo says closes Inktomi acquisition 03/20/2003 08:30 AM

Yahoo Reportedly Closes Search API to
Analytics Providers

Yahoo Reportedly Closes Search API to
Analytics Providers 04/02/2005 02:46 AM
MarketingVOX Apr 2 2005 6:08AM GMT

Yahoo! pulls out of Scandinavia, closes
Nordic branch in Copenhagen (AFP)

Yahoo! pulls out of Scandinavia, closes
Nordic branch in Copenhagen (AFP) 01/22/2004 12:48 PM
AFP - The US Internet portal giant Yahoo! will pull out of Scandinavia at the end of the month, closing its Nordic branch in Copenhagen which covers Norway and Sweden in addition to Denmark, a company employee said.

jYMSG API - Yahoo IM and Chat for Java

jYMSG API - Yahoo IM and Chat for Java 09/21/2004 12:50 PM
jYMSG releases new v0.59 version

Yahoo, Lycos strike chat, IM deal

Yahoo, Lycos strike chat, IM deal 05/06/2004 09:59 AM
CNET May 6 2004 2:43PM GMT

Yahoo moet Europese chat opgeven

Yahoo moet Europese chat opgeven 05/07/2004 06:18 AM
Planet.nl May 7 2004 10:45AM GMT

Yahoo Shuts Chat Room Doors

Yahoo Shuts Chat Room Doors 06/24/2005 09:26 PM
SiliconValley.Internet.com Jun 25 2005 1:55AM GMT

Yahoo, Lycos Europe Strike Web Chat and
IM Alliance

Yahoo, Lycos Europe Strike Web Chat and
IM Alliance 05/06/2004 04:14 PM
Washington Post May 6 2004 8:32PM GMT

Yahoo, Lycos Europe Strike Web Chat and
IM Alliance (Reuters)

Yahoo, Lycos Europe Strike Web Chat and
IM Alliance (Reuters) 05/06/2004 08:50 AM
Reuters - Yahoo Inc. and Lycos Europe, rival Web portals now turned business partners, will swap Web chat and instant-messenger technologies in a cost-savings move, the companies said on Thursday.

Yahoo sued by child abuse victim

Yahoo sued by child abuse victim 06/24/2005 04:04 PM
Is the buck stopping?

America Online and Yahoo! Chat Services
Coming to the BlackBerry Platform

America Online and Yahoo! Chat Services
Coming to the BlackBerry Platform 03/14/2005 06:23 PM
BrightHand Mar 14 2005 10:07PM GMT

Yahoo! News - Ark. Family Marks Birth of
15th Child

Yahoo! News - Ark. Family Marks Birth of
15th Child 05/26/2004 01:46 PM
These people are scary .. 15 KIDS?! .. here

story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&ncid=751&e=9&u=/ap /20040525/ap_on_he_me/fifteen_kids
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Yahoo! News - Cooking Diva Julia Child
Loved Red Meat, Gin

Yahoo! News - Cooking Diva Julia Child
Loved Red Meat, Gin 08/14/2004 04:55 AM
Julia Child Dies at 91 .. just got better

story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/nm/20040813/ts_nm /people_child_dc
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Microsoft Chat: Windows XP Smart
Displays Online chat

Microsoft Chat: Windows XP Smart
Displays Online chat 12/04/2003 07:11 PM

Chat Blazer, Cutting a Trail to
Enterprise Chat

Chat Blazer, Cutting a Trail to
Enterprise Chat 04/15/2004 11:36 PM
Internet.com Apr 16 2004 3:07AM GMT

Microsoft Chat: MSN Messenger Chat

Microsoft Chat: MSN Messenger Chat 07/13/2004 05:11 PM

" A belief that we are connected as one
people. If there’s a child on the south
side of Chicago who can’t read, that
matters to me, even if it’s not my
child. If there’s a senior citizen
somewhere who can’t pay for her
prescription and has to choose..."

" A belief that we are connected as one
people. If there’s a child on the south
side of Chicago who can’t read, that
matters to me, even if it’s not my
child. If there’s a senior citizen
somewhere who can’t pay for her
prescription and has to choose..." 07/29/2004 01:02 AM

99 Rooms

99 Rooms 06/16/2004 12:22 AM
Via, er someone, I seem to have lost the backlink, 99ROOMS.COM; I was trying to work but just a little too wasted with East-Coast jet-lag and this thing cost me an hour of my time, which I don’t regret in the slightest. I’m sure others will disagree, but I found it beautiful and witty.

Other changes, other rooms

Other changes, other rooms 01/17/2004 10:42 PM
Ads be gone. Links be here. Kicking against the pricks of CSS design and other allsorts.

War in our living rooms

War in our living rooms 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
At the beginning of Glory, having never seen war before, Matthew Broderick's character, Robert Shaw, gets shell-shocked on the battlefield, unable to function with the

"Explore 99 Rooms!"

"Explore 99 Rooms!" 06/11/2004 03:17 AM

the air-conditioned rooms at the top of
the stairs

the air-conditioned rooms at the top of
the stairs 03/22/2005 04:28 PM
I was really disappointed by the story MSNBC tried to tell yesterday. I was hoping we'd discuss the empowering nature...

How safe are clean rooms?

How safe are clean rooms? 01/18/2004 01:39 PM

Deadly Rooms Of Death 1.6.6

Deadly Rooms Of Death 1.6.6 08/21/2004 05:37 AM
A puzzling game of dungeon exploration.

Celebration III Tickets and Hotel Rooms

Celebration III Tickets and Hotel Rooms 06/30/2004 11:15 AM
Are you anxious about getting tickets and hotel reservations to what will be the best Star Wars Celebration ever? Well there's word that an announcement will be coming very soon . . .
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