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Story: Children's charities call for end to 'anarchic Internet'

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Are we going to stop e-mail because very often (specially in the free Hotmail from Microsoft MSN) you get spam and porn on it?
Should we stop search engines because you can get a huge number of pages with content which could be not good for children?
And actually, why not shot down the whole Internet? A curfew at 10 pm for young children as they do in France?
Let's face it: the paedophiles have won yesterday on war...They managed to shut down a service use by millions but disturbed by a tiny disgusting minority...And don't you find funny that MSN kept the USA chatrooms, in a paid basis? Is the end for free chat rooms, but nothing changes if you pay...A bit like these sex swingers of high society people in London....
I found the whole lot the biggest cynical act on the Net in years...And another thing: MSn is a part of the Internet, NOT the whole internet....
In 7 years using the Net, I have use chat rooms sometimes, but actually never in MSN.

MSN did stop too their free pages a few years ago, as they were unable to properly monitor their contents...Yahoo and AOL, their main concurrents did carry on succesfully offering free pages and they will, I am sure, will carry on offering free chat...

As for the old anarchic Internet, many of us like it, and dislike with disgust the "new" (?) commercial .net stuff not for children Net.

The Internet can be fantastic to educate kids, and closing down services will not stop this: kids are kids and they need to learn, and obey their parents...It's not Microsoft or AOL or any company who must monitor young children, is their parents and teachers...Many parents are far too happy to keep their kids in front of the screen computers, as long as they keep quiet...

If we apply the Microsoft philosophy, we should close pubs to fight alcoholism. We should stop the sell of cigarrettes. We should stop selling food to avoid obesity.

And perhaps we should show our credit card to ask if we can breathe...

It's unbelivable that Microssoft, whose number one and two are in top 5 fortunes, with a revenue close to 100 Billion dollars, can not simply reduce the number of chat rooms available in their services (instead to allow anyone to start one) and put paid people to monitor the whole thing.

Microsoft people have become blind with their thirst of money: the moe they make, the more they think they are the only ones to do something on the computing world, and worst, the more they win, the more they want to win even more.

The real obscenity if that someone could have so much money (cf Bill gates) that he could run several contries on his own, and still have a large amount for himself...

And the NSPCC has Microsoft as one of the main people giving them money, so no wonder they approve what Microsoft does...

Even that way, by giving huge amounts to "selected" charities Microsoft has become a real third power, with a main difference with the rest: they are not elected people, they simply are rich...Too rich indeed...

Anyway, I am sure my words won't be published as I am very poor myself, and who gives a dam of my opinion...

Should I add that I think that we should apply death penalty for peadophiles, which would be much more efficient than close the chat rooms? 99.9% of chatrooms users are not paedophiles, why should we allow those perverts to stop this.

What about disabled people whose main social activity is chatting on line?People with sensor impairment or illnesses like that have on chat rooms the only way to express themselves to the world...Chat allows them to get a new identity, one in which they are equal to the other people in the chat rooms...

It's the permissivity in our decadent societies which has made our kids aware of too much too young, which is the source of all this problems....

In UK girls as young as 12 get pregnant, and this should not be...It's teachers, parents and politicians who are responsible, and nothing to do with chatrooms, or indeed

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