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Story: Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'

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I have used MSN's chatrooms for about 5 years. I quickly found user created chatrooms as a place to have some wonderful conversations with people from all over the world.

If MSN worried about "children" seeing things they shouldn't see, then why not just get rid of the pornbots that would come into the rooms? (All a person had to do is turn their whispers off and they wouldn't receive any unwanted communications.)

One day I stumbled into the Computing Catagory of MSN chat. I was amazed at how many people were willing to share their knowledge on PC repair and troubleshooting. Sitting in the PC Help Center repair rooms taught me an incredible amount about how to keep my computer running smoothly.

I can understand MSN's decision to go to pay service for chat, they are a business, but stopping all chat from Europe makes me feel like Europe is being punished like a child for being bad. Europe is being sent into time-out.

I wish i had MSN as an ISP so i could cancel them!

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