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twenex
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The MSN UK Pornography Item.
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Sep 24 15:34 UTC 2003 |
The Microsoft Network UK has now closed all its chatrooms, to avoid child
pornography and meetings with paedophiles, etc.
Sensible Precaution or mad, Fascist nanny-State censorship?
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twenex
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response 1 of 26:
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Sep 24 15:53 UTC 2003 |
Lito news stories on the above can be found at the following URLs:
(The above line should say "Links to". lag.)
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,1048627,00.html - The
Guardian, left-wing UK newspaper.
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=446426 - The
Independent, centrist UK newspaper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3133192.stm - The BBC. You don't know
who the BBC is? ;-P
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-828868,00.html - The Times (of
London) - right-wing.
PS. For the uniniated, leftwing=Democrats=Labour,
rightwing=Republicans=Tories/Conservatives, centrist=LibDems (no major US
equivalent).
PPS. I tried to find some American links to this story. I couldn't find any.
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flem
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response 2 of 26:
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Sep 24 17:30 UTC 2003 |
I believe slashdot has a story on this.
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twenex
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response 3 of 26:
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Sep 24 17:43 UTC 2003 |
Thanks for that: The link to the Slashdot story itself is:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/09/24/062218.shtml?tid=109&tid=126&tid=187&t
id=
95.
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twenex
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response 4 of 26:
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Sep 24 17:44 UTC 2003 |
Corrigendum: It's not just MSN UK; according to Slashdot, MSN is shutting down
*all* its unmonitored chatrooms worldwide.
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anderyn
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response 5 of 26:
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Sep 24 18:33 UTC 2003 |
That's what I heard on the radio this am too.
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dah
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response 6 of 26:
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Sep 24 19:31 UTC 2003 |
No, it's not shutting down the ones you pay for, but I still don't understand
what the big deal is. What's the big deal.
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krokus
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response 7 of 26:
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Sep 24 21:15 UTC 2003 |
What are they defining as a monitored chat room? This really is
stupid, especially since there are plenty of other places to chat.
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flem
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response 8 of 26:
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Sep 24 21:16 UTC 2003 |
Not much of a big deal. Microsoft is doing its embrace and extend thing
again, in the instant messenger market, again. Probably won't work.
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butiki
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response 9 of 26:
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Sep 25 06:55 UTC 2003 |
if i remember right (from watching some news items about it), Microsoft wants
to somehow control its liability on the issue. I.e., they keep the paid areas
open, so if someone tries to pull a pedo stunt they have the authority to get
that user's name, etc. in other words, they want to remove the pedophiles'
anonymity. however, i think that even if they shut out peodphiles from their
service in this manner, the pedophiles will still have other avenues.
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twenex
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response 10 of 26:
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Sep 25 11:14 UTC 2003 |
Indeed, and the spin I got on it from the MSN UK repon BBC News yesterday
morning was that they just did it to protect children, totally altruistic.
Forgive me if I don't buy that line, considering who it's coming from.
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scott
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response 11 of 26:
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Sep 25 12:30 UTC 2003 |
The view over on The Register is that it's part of a plan to seize control
of instant messaging and such.
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sj2
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response 12 of 26:
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Sep 25 12:34 UTC 2003 |
I don't think this has anything to do with their concern for children.
The reason has to be commercial. Either they wanted to close them
because they weren't making money on them or something similar.
Just think if google shut down google groups??? *Shudder*!!
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happyboy
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response 13 of 26:
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Sep 25 19:15 UTC 2003 |
oh god! what would we all do then?!
GO FOR A BRISK WALK?
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asddsa
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response 14 of 26:
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Sep 25 19:47 UTC 2003 |
SMACK YOURSELF
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happyboy
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response 15 of 26:
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Sep 25 20:32 UTC 2003 |
DOES BEATING OFF COUNT?
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asddsa
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response 16 of 26:
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Sep 25 20:41 UTC 2003 |
BEATING OFF CUNT
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vipla
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response 17 of 26:
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Sep 25 23:24 UTC 2003 |
Helo!Do you now how do I changes web pages?
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dah
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response 18 of 26:
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Sep 26 00:50 UTC 2003 |
Beat off, cunt.
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gull
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response 19 of 26:
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Sep 26 02:39 UTC 2003 |
I think they did it for monetary reasons. MSN is a money-losing
enterprise for Microsoft, and it hasn't succeeded in its original goal
of killing AOL. I can't see how this will really protect children --
there's no shortage of chatrooms other places, and most of them are less
well monitored than MSN's.
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slash
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response 20 of 26:
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Oct 6 02:02 UTC 2003 |
Everyone has to remeber that Microsoft is a control freak company
all they want to do is create a large monopoly, and dominate the computer
industry. They feel that they need to force people to pay, just so they can
talk to other people. What they don't realize, is that as long as people are
meeting people online, there are gonna be scary Pedophiles. And why do people
Care about the MSN network, I mean, we should jsut skip it all together and
go back to using the grex "party". :-P nobody is using it anymore!!!
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mdw
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response 21 of 26:
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Oct 6 05:21 UTC 2003 |
Microsoft has lawyers. What a surprise. I don't think this means
anything past that.
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reggae
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response 22 of 26:
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Nov 23 22:25 UTC 2003 |
What the hell is this account do?
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naftee
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response 23 of 26:
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Nov 24 01:22 UTC 2003 |
It JIVES
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willcome
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response 24 of 26:
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Nov 27 07:28 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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