Ali
06-24-2005, 08:03 AM
Source. (http://p2pnet.net/story/5327) Houston TV station KPRC ‘Local 2 Troubleshooters’ revealed Yahoo was displaying advertising from major corporations in rooms geared only toward sex with children”.
"In those rooms, Local 2 posed as a 13-year-old girl and Houston men lined up at the Troubleshooters' door after arranging sex meetings," says the station. "Countless men tried to display pornography with children."
PepsiCo, State Farm Insurance and Georgia-Pacific were among big sponsors who pulled their ads, so Yahoo closed them all, “leaving nothing but blank screens where the rooms used to be.”
In the process, however, hundreds of chat rooms which had nothing to do with sex were taken offline and now, “those innocent computer users are wondering how they will fill the massive void on the Internet,” says the story, which also points out that, “Yahoo's move came after a lawsuit was filed against the internet portal last month on behalf of a 12-year-old molestation victim and following a long campaign by watchdog groups to persuade Yahoo and other large internet portals to purge their sites of child porn”.
Parent and child protection groups are praising Yahoo for the move but it appears to have been inspired more by fears for its bottom line than concern for the well-being of some of its for younger users.
“After years of trying to persuade Sunnyvale-based Yahoo to go after child pornographers operating within the chat rooms, critics suspect the threat of a costly civil suit and the potential loss of advertising dollars likely prompted Yahoo to act,” says KPRC, adding:
“Patrick Truman, a senior legal counsel for the conservative Christian group, Family Research Council and a former federal prosecutor, believes Yahoo has the means to police its site more effectively than it does. The company acknowledges that it does not monitor its chat rooms.”
Truman is quoted as saying, "I'm glad a suit has finally been brought because it will give someone access to the way Yahoo operates. Records can now be subpoenaed that will show the kind of knowledge Yahoo has about the trade of child pornography in its chat rooms."
In 2002, an FBI investigation revealed that child pornography was being distributed in a Yahoo chat room called Candyman. The chat room operated for two months before being shut down, adds KPRC.Nice. Yahoo happily allows these filthy fucking preverts to congregate and share child pornography and only closes them when their sponsors pull their ads.
Capitalism in action. Paedophiles are consumers, too!
"In those rooms, Local 2 posed as a 13-year-old girl and Houston men lined up at the Troubleshooters' door after arranging sex meetings," says the station. "Countless men tried to display pornography with children."
PepsiCo, State Farm Insurance and Georgia-Pacific were among big sponsors who pulled their ads, so Yahoo closed them all, “leaving nothing but blank screens where the rooms used to be.”
In the process, however, hundreds of chat rooms which had nothing to do with sex were taken offline and now, “those innocent computer users are wondering how they will fill the massive void on the Internet,” says the story, which also points out that, “Yahoo's move came after a lawsuit was filed against the internet portal last month on behalf of a 12-year-old molestation victim and following a long campaign by watchdog groups to persuade Yahoo and other large internet portals to purge their sites of child porn”.
Parent and child protection groups are praising Yahoo for the move but it appears to have been inspired more by fears for its bottom line than concern for the well-being of some of its for younger users.
“After years of trying to persuade Sunnyvale-based Yahoo to go after child pornographers operating within the chat rooms, critics suspect the threat of a costly civil suit and the potential loss of advertising dollars likely prompted Yahoo to act,” says KPRC, adding:
“Patrick Truman, a senior legal counsel for the conservative Christian group, Family Research Council and a former federal prosecutor, believes Yahoo has the means to police its site more effectively than it does. The company acknowledges that it does not monitor its chat rooms.”
Truman is quoted as saying, "I'm glad a suit has finally been brought because it will give someone access to the way Yahoo operates. Records can now be subpoenaed that will show the kind of knowledge Yahoo has about the trade of child pornography in its chat rooms."
In 2002, an FBI investigation revealed that child pornography was being distributed in a Yahoo chat room called Candyman. The chat room operated for two months before being shut down, adds KPRC.Nice. Yahoo happily allows these filthy fucking preverts to congregate and share child pornography and only closes them when their sponsors pull their ads.
Capitalism in action. Paedophiles are consumers, too!