Yahoo! to shut chat rooms promoting adult-child sex
A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Yahoo Inc. agreed to shut down Internet chat rooms designed to promote sex between adults and children, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said on Wednesday.
The agreement is the first to institute systemwide controls over chat rooms likely to be frequented by child predators, the attorney general said.
New York and Nebraska this year began investigations after learning that children had unfettered access to adult chat rooms. Spitzer said Yahoo in June removed or barred the posting of 70,000 user-created chat rooms whose names suggested they facilitated illegal conduct, including the promotion of sex between adults and children.
posted by Fergie @ 10/12/2005 07:58:00 AM
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