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Article: Yahoo shuts chat rooms over child safety
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- June 25, 2005
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SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo Inc, the most-used Internet site, has shut
down all of its user-created Internet chat rooms amid concerns that
adults were using the sites to try to have sex with minors.
The giant Internet media company closed down those chat rooms and
the ability to create new ones "in the past week," said Yahoo
Spokeswoman Mary Osako.
Chat rooms created and sponsored by Yahoo itself remain open,
Osako said. The number of user-created chat rooms is variable at any
given time and Yahoo does not track that figure, she said.
The user-created chat rooms in question, where Internet users
converse in real time, had names including "Girls 13 And Under For
Older Guys" and "Girls 13 And Up For ...