Yahoo closes chat rooms

[ovi]

After reports that some of its chat rooms were being used to promote sex with minors, Yahoo has pulled the plug on perhaps hundreds of such chat rooms. Yahoo received swarms of angry protests from several of its top sponsors, including companies such as PepsiCo Inc and Georgia-pacific. The sponsors stopped using Yahoo for advertising when it became known that adults were attempting to entice children into sexual encounters within some of Yahoo's chat rooms.

KPRC reported that in some cases, men were using web cameras to send lewd pictures to minors in chat rooms with such titles as "younger girls 4 older guys" and "girls 13 and under for older guys."
Why are some people so pathetic? Perhaps one day, someone will invent a chip that shuts a computer down if a sad person tries to use it to achieve these kinds of ends. Computing and the Internet just winds up with a bad name because of certain sad individuals who should just all go for counselling, or better still castration.

Source: techspot.com/news/17903-Yahoo-closes-chat-rooms.html

 

[Paul_KY]

This was a very cowardly move on Yahoo!'s part. They should have kept the chat rooms open, so law inforcement officials, posing as young children, could bust those pedophile's a*s's.

They do it all the time on AOL.

Another prime example of putting people before principles. Yahoo!, sucking their advertiser's nipple again.

 

[Duke]

MSN did the same thing about a year ago.

I agree Paul, but I guess you'd pretty much have to fill every chat room to catch the sickos before they victimize someone else.

For the life of me, I can't understand what an adult would see in a little kid that would make them think of sex, it's sickening actually.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

I can understand most crimes like theft for drugs bvandalism out of jealousy etc, but peedos just goes beyond me. My wife Tracey told me that it is simple. These people (for want of a better and polite word) see no wrong in what they do, it is no different to a hetero guy fancying a nice looking gal. they are not ill, it is just the way they are. After reading up on that, it is true, and they see it as normal. For this reason they should be locked up for ever.

In the UK the government are changing the law to allow them to hold these people on public safety grounds, but the human rights brigade are fighting their cause, including dare I say it, Amnesty International who say it is likely to be abused .

 

[ovi]

Hello

I think that the peedos should be locked for ever. The children are pure persons and the peedos are animals.

Ovi

 

[Paul_KY]

So Yahoo! and MSN closed their chat rooms?

Hip Hip Hurray! I'm sure that'll solve the problem. I'm sure those pedophiles won't go to other chat rooms, right?

Why can't the World, 'get it'? The Internet is PRIME hunting ground for the criminals. This is the VERY PLACE where we can EASILY catch their a*s's and lock 'em up for good.

Stupid Yahoo! and M$N!

 

[ovi]

Hello

Interesting oppinion, anyway if they hide their IP ....

Ovi