this is to big for weblinks yahoo is screwed

i think this might cause yahoo to go belly up i beleave they are screwed because of this. i am at a loss of words for this cr@p[img]http://forums.majorgeeks.com/images/smilies/mad.gif[/img][img]http://forums.majorgeeks.com/images/smilies/frown.gif[/img] what would the world be with out yahoo

 

If they are truly supporting such internet activity, then I guess the world would be a better place....

 

What I find interesting is that this is just now making headlines. One of the first things I stumbled into online when I got my first computer in 1998 was the sexually explicit chatrooms on Yahoo, some of which were not just distasteful but probably illegal.

And as the head of advertising for a major corporation like PepsiCo, wouldn't you think they'd have someone on the payroll paying attention to that sort of thing?

 

Sadly no. If it sells Pepsi then morals and ethics go out the window and only comes back once the consumer has been made aware of the problem through the media...which seems to take 7 years if your dates are correct. Usually the media have their nose inflaming every small story before it even is a story...the question I would be asking is why did it take the media so long to bring this one to the public attention?

 

Me too, Sgt. Tibbs - I got my first PC in 1997, and was stunned by the amount of sex in yahoo chatrooms, etc.

 

My dates are correct for when I first noticed them. Lord knows how long they've actually been operating. I would guess it took about 24 hours after chatrooms were first introduced, whenever that was.

I just find it amazing that suddenly we're all shocked and offended about something that it takes approximately four mouse clicks to find. It's not like they've been hiding it.

 

Don't get me wrong....I think this child sex stuff is sick and outrageous!!

BUT....If you don't like it...don't look at it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And furtermore...were are the parents when their underage children are participating in this sick crap??????!!!!!! It seems as though these days, parents don't control their children like they should, and when they do discover that they are participating in something like that or the likes....they look for every copout they can find instead of admitting they don't watch their kids like they should!!!! If my parents found me doing something like that, when I was a kid, they would have beat me black and blue and took my computer away!! But wait...I'm sorry...you can't dicipline your child anymore without it being declared "Abuse"!!!! But that's a whole 'nother issue!!!! And everybody sits and wonders why the children these days are the way they are!!!!!

Roger

 

I have this vision of a bunch of grungy old men in their underwear, and a bunch of cops, all sitting around telling lies to each other. Sex isn't that hard to find for even a YOUNG girl.

Now if the chat rooms were "Horney 13 year old boys looking for sex with young girls" I'd find it more believable.

 

LOL. The girl in that pic is not lef-handed. The picture's been flipped right-to-left. Check out her keyboard.

 

is that jacko in that little webcam window? lmao

 

I watched the video and read the article. Yahoo isn't the one's that created those chat rooms. The chat rooms referred to in the article and in the video were user created rooms. I understand that it is still Yahoo's responsibility, but seriously... at least in my opinion, it's not entirely Yahoo's fault. It's the people out there that have sick and twisted desires.

Again, those rooms were created by some scum bag out there. Anyone can go and create their own room right now and call it whatever they want. It might be Yahoo's responsibility, but they surely didn't intend for it to be used that way.

 

True enough. Although their response seems a bit limp wristed. How difficult would it be to wipe those rooms and ban the bozo(s) that set them up? I don't intend for my kitchen floor to get dirty, but I still have to sweep it out periodically. Basically it sounds like Yahoo is either going to have to pay attention to what's going on on their playground, or lose the advertising revenue.

 

Sounds like they should have an approval system for chatrooms. I know many IRC servers these days will not let you start a channel unless it's registered and approved by their moderators. Really thats how it should have worked from the start.

But thats the thing with the internet, anyone can set up a server and use it for what they like... but thats better than a "trusted" company like Yahoo being used to host such things. The ad placement is really a matter of coincidence, since it's all automated anyway. They'd have no more control over the ads than they do over the rooms created (currently anyway).

 

Then they should have read their advertising contracts more closely. Sounds like these rooms violated the contract terms for at least some of them. Yahoo isn't a few kids with an amateur server, they're Big Business. They got caught with their heads up their yahoos. Time to make some changes.

Something that has always puzzled me. Why is it that an individual can be arrested for downloading or posting something that the ISP or host company can't be arrested for hosting? I understand user-started chat rooms are a challenge, but most ISP's carry newsgroups with clearly illegal content, and they have to set those up themselves, intentionally.

 

They go for the little man because we can't afford the defense like the major corporations can!! They have legal counsel on the payroll (if it's a big enough company) 24/7 and they can and will go to the end, whereas me or you will probably take a deal, just beacause we can't afford a lawyer or don't want to be tied up in something like that for years!!

Roger