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Forum: In the News
Thread (Discussion): [Wired News] Sexual predators lose an outlet
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Message 164345 (In Reply to Message 164343)
Posted by steve
on Oct 12, 2005 10:09 PM | Also by steve
| Gender: Male,
Age Bracket: 30 - 39,
State: Virginia,
Country: United States |
True. It's a good move on their part and they're obviously getting political pressure, but I agree that it's been a problem in various parts of Yahoo for a long time and they haven't always seemed eager and quick to address it.
The agreement calls for the ISP to remove and bar the posting of user-created chat rooms with names that promote sex between children and adults
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In June, while still in discussions with the attorneys general, Yahoo removed or barred the posting of about 70,000 user-created chat rooms whose names suggested they facilitated illegal conduct, including promoting sex between adults and minors.
At first glance it sounds like they are just going after chat room names that sound like they promote adult-child sexual contact. That in of itself wouldn't be that effective since it doesn't address chat rooms that have less blatant names, but still contain content and discussions of this type. However, it goes on to say:
# Yahoo must prescreen all user-created chat room names and deny posting of all that encourage sex acts between adults and minors.
# If and when Yahoo becomes aware of any such chat rooms, it must purge them from its site within 24 hours.
That seems to imply any that involve discussion (and images I presume) of this type will be purged. I thought that was already the case, though I don't think they were as active at policing their chat rooms (and when they say "chat rooms" I think, or at least hope, they also mean Yahoo Groups as well), and appeared to sometimes need repeated pressure from people for action to be taken (could have been a backlog, workload issue). In any case, unless they can streamline the process and work with law enforcement to prosecute, there's no reason for those interested in engaging in the prohibited activity to continue to create new accounts and new chat rooms and groups.
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Message 164343
Posted by Renunciation
on Oct 12, 2005 09:56 PM | Also by Renunciation
| Gender: N/A,
Age Bracket: 40 - 49,
State: N/A,
Country: Bahrain |
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164340, admin, Oct 12, 2005 05:22 PM [Introduction]
164343, Renunciation, Oct 12, 2005 09:56 PM
164345, steve, Oct 12, 2005 10:09 PM
164381, artie, Oct 13, 2005 02:32 AM
164461, saintjimmy, Oct 13, 2005 07:15 PM
164465, Renunciation, Oct 13, 2005 08:16 PM [Challenge to Non-Sex Offenders!!!]
164557, mawmaw, Oct 14, 2005 10:33 PM
164652, Renunciation, Oct 15, 2005 08:35 PM
164462, artie, Oct 13, 2005 07:25 PM
164942, victorialondon, Oct 18, 2005 05:53 PM [I'm Amazed this was allowed in the firs...]
165556, MrTruth, Oct 27, 2005 01:52 AM
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