Comments on: Yahoo dumps child sex rooms

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:12:51 +0000

Heh. The “children” in chat rooms are usually older guys or media reporters or cops posing as such. And the “adults” are usually children wanting more respect.

Since people generally give them none.

Point is, nobody knows anybody else’s true age or gender in a chat room, it’s all screwy. Heck, if these media reporters can pose as a child and get away with it, how can they possibly assume that the person they’re speaking to is REALLY who they say they are? I can just see it now:

Problem Solver: Hi, I’m cindy, 7 yrs old [actually 37 married male]
Pervert: Hi, I’m 27 and you’re hot. [actually 7 year old]

So….. who’s soliciting who?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 02:03:21 +0000

To remove the pervs you’ve got to remove the kids.
I don’t really like the idea of where this could go, but here goes. Why don’t they ask for a credit card number when signing up? I know kids can get hold of their parents cards, but this should stop most kids, particularly the young kids. Yahoo could even charge 50c per month so if a kid was using their parents card for access it would be on their bill yet not too expensive for adult users. They could also insist on the phone number associated with the card to further discourage kids who don’t want their parents getting a verification call.

Other than this I don’t see how you can keep some free speech and remove pervs looking for kids.

It seems to me that keeping the rooms may even be a good way of catching the pervs which are likely to gravitate to that sort of environment.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:42:31 +0000

“I’d rather live in the America I know and love than a country where we simply execute people we don’t like.”

lol.
America is one of the few countries in the World that does execute people they don’t like. Surely you’ve heard of the death penalty you…

I think I’ll go out and burn a flag while I can. Pity I missed flag day.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:41:50 +0000

kill the people who say “kill the pervs”.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:13:35 +0000

You are right, children do need to be taught on how to resist these perverts. However, I am right too. The pervs need to be executed - if they are convicted after a fair trial. I did not mean to imply that i approve vigilanteism.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:10:50 +0000

And what happens when you find that more than half of the users in sex chats are under 18? Prosecute them as well?

I have been into the teen chats, and all anyone talks about is sex in them. With all the sex talk in underage chatrooms on Yahoo! it would be impossible for Yahoo! to moderate. It is either they allow it to happen or shut them down.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:45:00 +0000

(you forgot christian zealot)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:43:40 +0000

Nice try. You really think dialogue works with somebody spewing about liberals and bullets? Stop fooling yourself.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:54:21 +0000

52 your white and a moron

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:45:01 +0000

Great idea but tell me this. How old am I? See, you can’t answer that. How do you limit access by age? Even the places that try really can’t.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:30:44 +0000

Killing the “pervs” doesn’t stop child molestation. It only prevents the child molestor that got caught. Neither does it prevent the molestations that the child molestor already did. Killing is not the answer. The answer is educating our children and talking to them in a straight forward and honest manner so they know the dangers that are out there.
Children get mutilated and killed by cars and by drunk drivers. Do we kill all these wreckless people? No, we tell our children to look both ways before crossing the street. We tell them to not ride a bike on a busy road, and we try to stay off the roads when drunk drivers are most likely to be on the road.
Think about it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:27:38 +0000

shut up, you neo-con.

you don’t even know who the person is that you’re responding to as they are also anonymous - no names.

idiot.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:27:04 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:24:23 +0000

Give me a break your never going to stop these online pervs..
how about this you stop children from going in to chat ,how about a age limit say 18?? where are the parents? closing down private rooms that adults would like to discuss things other than sex is like cutting off the head when you have a headace get a clue YAHOO..

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:19:03 +0000

The bottum line now as always is money. There is sexual exploitation in every room in Yahoo. Its the sexual thrill that brings in the people, the people bring in the advertizers, and the advertizers bring in the cash. Yahoo should have gotten rid of rooms that cater to child pornography or meeting a child for sex but remember these are the same people who allow the “hobots” to flash their sex ads all through the rooms. I have heard they even sell them a special membership so they can enter the rooms at any times.

There is no cure for childmolesting perverts. Yahoo can’t monitor every conversation in every room. Phone sex is one of the oldest forms of sexual communication, if you want Yahoo to close all chatrooms because of this doesn’t it make sense to ban all telephone calls that the CIA aren’t listening in on?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:18:59 +0000

Define children.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:18:18 +0000

It is very tragic situation.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:14:36 +0000

What took yahoo so long. If one mobs these chat rooms with bad press.. They go away anyway

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:59:56 +0000

kill the parents who don’t monitor their childrens’ chat logs.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:58:20 +0000

shut up you neo-con.