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Article: Yahoo! to Bar Minor-Adult Sex Chat Rooms
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- October 12, 2005
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SAMUEL MAULL, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
10-12-2005
Dateline: NEW YORK
Internet service provider Yahoo! has agreed to bar chat rooms that promote sex between minors and adults, the attorneys general of New York and Nebraska announced Wednesday.
The agreement calls for Yahoo! to remove and bar the posting of user-created chat rooms with names that promote sex between children and adults, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning said in a prepared statement.
"We need to be vigilant to protect our children," Spitzer said. "It is imperative that parents, industry, prosecutors and lawmakers all work together to identify and address possible threats, ...