Yahoo's Pedophile Profits Finally Aired

Kids's Only AOL next?

Published on June 19, 2005 By greywar In Internet

Update : I ama retard. Link to the article about Yahoo is here and also fixed in the article's main body.

Way back in Jun 04 I wrote a bit about AOL's sketchy practice of marketing their Kid's Only Rooms as "a safe environment on the Net" all the while knowing that it was like putting up a giant sign saying "All the little kiddies are right here!" for the net pedophiles. AOL still reaps huge profit from unsavvy parents this way but finally someone else has shed a bit of light on this practice by another Net business concern : Yahoo.

See the deal was that on Yahoo! Chat you could make a room with any sort of name you wanted under any of their heading like "education" or "School". Pedophiles moved in ffast and they quickly became a swap meet for porn and a place to "groom" kids for potential meets.

Yahoo of course had no interest in shutting this down because Yahoo Chat is a massive ad revenue generator. The more people using more of it's rooms the more money it made. This practice was recently exposed causing yahoo to disallow the practice of creating your own rooms anywhere is Yahoo Chat. Maybe someone at a major new station will wake up and take a look at AOL too?

The bottom line is that we as a society insist on ID only to verify that you are over a certain age and have no mechanism for verifying that a Net user is under a certain age. This ensures that sites which cater to children are merely concentrators for adults posing as children for sexual purposes. Without a "Minor ID" card or something similar there are no safe places for kids on the net. Anywhere.

Comments (Page 1)

47songs

on Jun 19, 2005

Graywar, I'm concerned with this issue as well. Is there a link to a story on this? The two links I've tried in your writeup aren't working.

greywar

on Jun 19, 2005

oopsy. Here ya go.

Bichur

on Jun 19, 2005

Very disturbing. Now I have a valid reason not to yahoo. maybe I'll put a 'do you yahoo, then you need to check this (link to story)' on my emails.

I'm also suspicious of the reactions of Brawny, State Farm, etc but especially Diet Pepsi.
Business prudence dictates you verify and consistently check on ad placement to make sure you're getting what you paid for. They had to know. Now I'm wondering about Pepsi's 'new generation' campaign they had.

I will be sending the info out to some of my relatives - they're older and really into sending stuff all over on distribution lists (not spam).

Really makes the 'bleeding heart liberal' in me want to rear it's ugly head.

"Rip out their hearts and watch them bleed liberally"

greywar

on Jun 19, 2005

They had to know.

You would be surprised actually. Yahoo is a wide ranging business affair. They probably didn't get quite that far down into the nuts and bolts of it to be fair. Yahoo sure did though.

Bichur

on Jun 19, 2005

You would be surprised actually.

I don't know. If it was me and I wanted ads placed, I'd want to know where they are placing them since I'm paying for it. I'd also go in and check to make sure my ads are where they said they would be. That would lead me to the discovery that I needed to hurt someone.

I can't really buy the 'I didn't know' defense if the opportunity to know was not utilized.

bakerstreet

on Jun 19, 2005

Heh, I'd point you over to all the outraged "BUSH THE MERCILESS IS PUSHING 'NUMBER OF THE BEAST' ID CARDS" blogs. The far-rights hate the idea of ID's, and the far left hates the idea. Libertarians believe that social security numbers are even illegal and an infringment of rights.

So... I'm thinking you won't get any kind of verifiable ID for kids any time soon, unless we sensible people oppress a bit more. In the meantime we'll either take people's words for it, or insist on credit card numbers which just lets people steal our identities.

_02

on Jun 19, 2005

This is very disturbing, indeed. Thanks for the info.

Skuff

on Jun 19, 2005

What you said is right most likely, but AOL will probably never be thoroughly investigated primarily because of certain things I can't say at the moment but you can find out if you search the internet long and hard enough...I'll help everyone who reads this out and give you a website to start with...Link

You can definately read alot about the conspiracy of things like that and much more there.

greywar

on Jun 20, 2005

moment but you can find out if you search the internet long and hard enough...

Let me also give you a hand there brother. Alex Jones (the guy he was attempting to link to and failing at) is a drooling moron who thinks that conspiracies of Masons and Satanists are responsible for his missing socks.

_02

on Jun 20, 2005

Masons and Satanists are responsible for his missing socks.

There is actually someone who links Masons and Satanists together? My dad was a Mason. He wasn't anything like a satanist. Who ever this person is, could use an education. Mason are linked with Shriners who have helped thousands of handicapp children lead the best life possible. I myself was a Rainbow Girl. We learned about Love, Duty and respect. They are the daughters of Masons. I guess it takes all kinds. Thanks for the heads up on the link.

Bichur

on Jun 20, 2005

Alex Jones.....is a drooling moron who thinks that conspiracies of Masons and Satanists are responsible for his missing socks.

Trust me, IT'S TRUE. I know - I live in Austin - used to watch him on the Austin Access channel. Could not believe he actually got picked up on a real station.

greywar

on Jun 20, 2005

Could not believe he actually got picked up on a real station.

well there is always a market for folks who want to beleive that their problems are caused by outside forces working in concert against them. Avoids that whole "responsibility" gig.

_02

on Jun 20, 2005

Thanks Bichur and greywar. It certainly is eye opening. If my dad were alive, he would be laughing his butt off. It's funny how people label everything they don't know or understand a conspiracy or evil. There is enough of those things without adding to it with that kind of garbage. Next this guy and his followers will be claiming Hospice is a conspiracy too! Some people sure give the devil alot of attention and power. I prefer to look at the light side of life.

dj_cityboy

on Jun 20, 2005

well i can say i really never heard about this before up until now.....and would like to say that pedophiles are the scum of the earth and parasites....Yahoo really needs to look at its marketing practices....for if they dont they to will become bottom feeders....

i am very glad that i already dislike Yahoo and dont use any of there services!

REVOLT~BOYCOTT~FIGHT

cityboy

greywar

on Jun 20, 2005

Yahoo really needs to look at its marketing practices

Well in point of fact and in the interest of fairness Yahoo has discontinued this practice since it was revealed in the light of day. Others still continue including big guns like Coke, Pepsi, and other brands which cater to kids. They very frequently set up chat areas on their websites which have the same problems. Unfortunately I think a great many of the folks setting this up have simply never thought it through to it's horrifying yet logical conclusion.

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