Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms Over Sex Content
June 23, 2005 – 13:32 pmSAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Reacting to angry protests from several of its top sponsors, Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) has pulled the plug on perhaps hundreds of chat rooms operating on its site after a media report revealed that some of the rooms were used to promote sex with minors.
Companies such as PepsiCo Inc. (PEP), State Farm Insurance and Georgia-Pacific Corp. stopped advertising on Yahoo after they were informed that adults were attempting to lure children into sexual encounters within some of Yahoo’s user-created chat rooms, according to a report by KPRC-TV in Houston.
KPRC reported that in some cases, men were using Web cameras to send lewd pictures to minors in chat rooms with such titles as “Younger Girls 4 Older Guys” and “Girls 13 And Under for Older Guys.”
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