Wednesday, September 24, 2003
MSN shuts down its chatrooms
BBC NEWS | Technology | MSN shuts down its chatrooms:
"Microsoft's internet service MSN has taken a major step in net safety which could sound the death knell for unsupervised chatrooms.
MSN are closing all their chatrooms in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and most of Asia from 14 October, and changing how others are operated globally. "
Er. so what? there are lots of other chatrooms. This is not going to make the problem go away, but it will stop MS ever getting sued for it I guess..
btw, further down the article:
"Chatrooms on MSN's other global sites will either be supervised - or moderated - by an adult 24 hours a day, or will be on a credit card subscription-basis only. "
uh-huh....
"Microsoft's internet service MSN has taken a major step in net safety which could sound the death knell for unsupervised chatrooms.
MSN are closing all their chatrooms in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and most of Asia from 14 October, and changing how others are operated globally. "
Er. so what? there are lots of other chatrooms. This is not going to make the problem go away, but it will stop MS ever getting sued for it I guess..
btw, further down the article:
"Chatrooms on MSN's other global sites will either be supervised - or moderated - by an adult 24 hours a day, or will be on a credit card subscription-basis only. "
uh-huh....
