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beezee88

bye bye MSN

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Microsoft once more, the nanny state strikes again! Because a few dirty little paedos use MSN to find kids, EVERYONE has to suffer now. I think it's only UK though, but it's still fucked up. It's not going to solve anything, as everyone will just go elsewhere, giving others strained bandwidth and Microsoft will probably lose out on some advertising revenue.

Maybe they are doing it to protect themselves from any possible lawsuits, but I haven't heard of anyone sueing a chatroom, they have disclaimers and stuff (don't they?)

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They're only removing the chatrooms though, you can still use the instant messaging functions. I don't see why this is such a big deal.

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I hate the people who come in, advertise or message you to see a porn site, and leave in MSN Chat

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Is it really that important? Boo hoo, all the teenagers won't be able to go in their chatrooms anymore, sob sniff.

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lmao this article was just talked about in our news - 2 minutes ago ^_^

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Letting your kid wander round the Internet unsupervised is like letting them walk around a red light district.

On the Internet, a wrong click here, or an unexpected pop-up there can instantly put pr0n on screen, or put you in touch with some other "adult" themed product or service. Even if the service isn't necessarily "offensive", it could very well be inappropriate.

And I'm sure we've all received unsolicited e-mails for herbal viagra, horny sluts wanting to do it with us, and offers to make our dicks so big we can use them as baseball bats, or had an adult themed ad or banner on an otherwise reasonably innocent site. It is unavoidable (as the Emperor said).

The only place in RL where so much children-unfriendly material is available is in the so called "dodgy" parts of various towns and cities, and I certainly wouldn't let my kids wander round them alone.

Yes, love it or hate it, much of the Internet is an incredibly accessible sleaze pit, Microsoft chat rooms or not. Again, it comes down to responsible parenting as much as anything else.

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Oh come on. This has nothing to do with protecting children, that's just a nice way to spin the story to ignorant journalists. This is just about saving money as running millions of free chat room doesn't tend to generate much revenue.

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Psyonisis said:

As long as I have the IM capabilities, I'm fine.

IM is for newbs.

All the really 1337 people use IRC.

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Jonathan said:

This is just about saving money as running millions of free chat room doesn't tend to generate much revenue.


I think you've head the nail on the head there. I read that in the USA, the MSN chatrooms aren't going to be stopped. Rather, it will become a subscription service. Why? Not for money oh no no. Rather because giving your credict card details ensures that people will have to use their honest identity, and ti stops kiddies from getting involved too.

You see... they're looking after our own interests after all *KA CHING*

Edit: Regarding 'chatrooms' and 'IRC'... From the way the media have reported this story I get the impression they have no idea about the distintion between these two things.

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Python_Junkie said:

As opposed to IRC? ;)

Yes. I'm referring more to the general topic chat rooms in Java applets and, of course, the MSN chatrooms.

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I'm sending my irclogs to the law in exchange for my own freedom before it's too late.

You people are so fucked on about a million counts of every crime under the sun.

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this is a good thing. I can't believe you haven't realised at least 90% of those in these chatrooms are actually perverts, and only like 5% is itty bitty titty.

Yeah I did get that phrase from Things to do in Denver when you're Dead.

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darknation said:

I'm sending my irclogs to the law in exchange for my own freedom before it's too late.

You people are so fucked on about a million counts of every crime under the sun.

welcome back man.


fuck microsoft. first they move business overseas to cut costs even though i bet bill gates could wipe his ass with 100 dollar bills and not give a shit, then this. fuck 'em, i hate microsoft. up with macintosh, linux, lindows, et cetera!

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HI IM A SEXY CHIC WANNA SEE MY WEBCAM??????? :)




I'm glad as hell the chat rooms are shutting down. Now if only yahoo would shut thier chatrooms down, and AOL shut thier chatrooms down.. I have something against internet chatrooms (Not as many idiots use IRC)

Not likely

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Actually I believe it's only the 3rd party chatrooms that MSN are shutting down. The ones they run and monitor themselves will still be there.

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