News Burst: Yahoo! Moves 'adult' IM Chat Rooms
News Adult-rated chat rooms have been moved off the main interface of Yahoo! None of the rooms are hidden from young users and none are located in an 'adult' section. Two clicks from the main screen will take any user to myriad rooms where ZDNet has...
[November 9, 2000, 11:46]
Adult Content Dispute Causes AltaVista To Close Features
News In October, CARU issued a report reprimanding Walt Disney because children who register on Disney.com can easily visit the company's Go.com Web portal and access adult online chat rooms. Web portal AltaVista has abandoned its community features...
[February 15, 2001, 8:50]
Children's Charities Call For End To 'anarchic Internet'
Talkback I have observed in adult chat rooms that there are a great many younger people who lie about their age to be able to chat with older more experienced people out of choice. Learning about risks and dealing with them are an important lesson in...
[October 5, 2003, 17:15]
Fpath Community Software
Downloads Fpath Software has chat rooms and lobbies (chat environments) custom tailored to specific interests, like music, family, adult, romance, alternative lifestyles and the African-American culture or for what ever community you would like to build...
[October 21, 2006, 22:16]
Paradise Chat Online
Downloads Events every night, trivia games, card games, adult lobby and games. Features: voice chat, cams, text chat, buddy list, change of font options, change of color options, mute option, forums, picture icons, posting Web pages in rooms, mod control in...
[April 13, 2007, 3:01]
Child Agencies Lambast Yahoo! Over Chatroom Apathy
News runs adult-rated chat on the main screen of its instant chat service, Messenger. s chatrooms break no laws, Williams thinks it inappropriate for a family oriented service to allow rooms like "pre-teen sex" and "11 to 19 year old sluts" (as...
[November 9, 2000, 15:41]
Yahoo! UK To Block Access To US Chatrooms
News In addition to stopping the UK Instant Messenger client from reaching adult chatrooms, Yahoo! has changed its UK Instant Messenger client to block access to adult chatrooms based in the US. The US version of the software, which anyone can access...
[February 12, 2001, 14:59]
Child Charities Unite Against Yahoo! Chat
News is refusing to remove the adult-rated chat featured on main screens of its Messenger service. MSN only monitors chat within rooms it has created. The portal defends its protocol saying it is unwilling to alienate a section of its family-orientated...
[November 13, 2000, 9:55]
Microsoft Chatroom Closure Is 'irresponsible'
Talkback Surely safety online starts at home.With parents making sure they are fully aware of what their children are doing while online and making sure that they know how to stay safe,not giving out personal details etc.Don't blame chatrooms for a lack of...
[September 25, 2003, 14:28]
Girls Most At Risk From Chatroom Predators
News Messenger was found to be offering adult-rated chat in its child-facing rooms such as "Teen" and "Friends". Whilst recognising the fun that can be had in cyber-chat, Gus Schattenberg, vice president of Ispos-Reid acknowledges the equal level of...
[December 4, 2000, 14:06]
Cybersex Sting: Naughton Pleads Guilty
News During the mistrial, Naughton claimed he thought the person he was corresponding with was an adult because so many people role-play in chat rooms. Naughton, 34, appeared before US District Judge Edward Rafeedie in Los Angeles and, as part of a plea...
[March 20, 2000, 9:36]
Government Denies It Is Demonising The Web
News The key messages in these guidelines are that children should never disclose personal details to people they have only met online, and that an adult should always accompany them when they first meet someone they have previously only spoken with on...
[January 6, 2003, 16:21]
AOL Enters The Rating Game
News The ratings body, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), ranks games in categories ranging from "early childhood" to "mature" and "adult. Including an "I" in a rating indicates to parents the game includes interactive elements like chat...
[November 19, 1999, 10:02]
Generation Tech
News It's hardly a sophisticated algorithmic index, but it makes perfect sense to children who may not know how to search like an adult or spell a keyword. By 13, researchers say, the same children will have gone through several software editions of...
[November 18, 2005, 16:20]
Web Of Porn: The Business Of Porn - Part 1
News Playboy -- possibly the most famous adult entertainment brand in the world -- has built up an expansive cyber enterprise with online magazines, Playboy TV, home video distribution, chat rooms, email, music and a cyber shopping mall all stamped...
[March 9, 1999, 15:43]
