It looks like Yahoo may finally be taking a little responsibility with all the sexual activity in their chat rooms, at least went it comes to children.
Yahoo Shuts Chat Rooms on Child Sex Fears Thursday,
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. (YHOO), 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.
Complete Story: FOXNews.com – Business – Yahoo Shuts Chat Rooms on Child Sex Fears.
When will they take the next step to police some of the other activity?
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As a Minnesota based photographer and artist I have been greatly influenced by the Upper Midwest. I focus my skills and energies on portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, architectural and fine art work.
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THAT’S GOOD NEWS! Yahoo’s chat sites were horrible. No matter what category you tried to find conversation in it was all x-rated sex and sick perverted comments. I am not kidding. I don’t knit, but I looked under a knitting chat room once just to see if it was like the others and sure enough after a few minutes someone wanted me to “view his web cam and …..”
My son is 14 and I have locked him out of chat rooms – but a friend of mine lets his 11 yr. old girl and 13 yr. old boy chat all the time. It’s just not safe.
Thanks Wayne.