Yahoo closes chat rooms over sex content
05:09 - Thursday 23 June 2005 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: yahoo, closes, chat, rooms, over, sex, content Category : Miscellaneous
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: yahoo, closes, chat, rooms, over, sex, content Category : Miscellaneous
Reacting to angry protests from several of its top sponsors, Yahoo has pulled the plug on perhaps hundreds of chat rooms operating on its site after a media report revealed that some of the rooms were used to promote sex with minors.
Companies such as PepsiCo, State Farm Insurance and Georgia-Pacific stopped advertising on Yahoo after they were informed that adults were attempting to lure children into sexual encounters within some of Yahoo’s user-created chat rooms, according to a report by KPRC-TV in Houston.
Read the complete story . (AP, Yahoo)
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