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Article: Yahoo to Bar Minor-Adult Sex Chat Rooms
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- October 13, 2005
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SAMUEL MAULL, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
10-13-2005
Dateline: NEW YORK
Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday it will bar chat rooms that promote sex between minors and adults and restrict all chat rooms to users 18 and older.
The changes come under an agreement with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning.
"This is about protecting kids," Bruning said.
Spitzer said authorities did not have to resort to litigation. He said Yahoo, "acting as a good corporate citizen, ... did the right thing. We asked them to create a filter to stop this kind of thing and they have done so."
In June, while still in discussions with the attorneys general, Yahoo voluntarily ...