Auburn PR Blog

Gross me out. Among the thousands of chat room titles one can thumb through at Yahoo, there are rooms with some disturbing titles, such as:

9-17-Year-Olds Wantin’ Sex
Younger Girls 4 Older Guys
Girls 13 And Under For Older Guys
Girls 13 And Up For Much Older Man
Girls 8 to 13 Watch Boys (In A Particular Sex Act)

While this is grossly absurd, I’m wondering how much legal action can be taken. I would of course expect that Yahoo! take every site like this down, but I’m wondering how sites like this can just slip through the cracks? It seems that there should be some course of action taken to get a chat room title, or merely its existence, approved by a hosting website (like Yahoo.com)

The lawyer in me though, is scared that this will be practically overlooked because it is someone’s “freedom of speech” or that someone will say, “I can think or act however i want…it’s a free country!” [Sickos!]

Not to mention the fact that major corporations were being tied into this as well. Did they know what they were getting themselves into? Did they know what their money was paying for? Of course they’ll say no. Maybe they can be the ones that serve as the 900lb. gorillas to take sites like this into the court room and off of the web.

Is there something that can be done? Will it take searching for victims to put a stop to all this yahoo-wahoo?

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