While Yahoo!'s chat rooms break no laws, Williams thinks it inappropriate for a family-oriented service to allow rooms like "pre-teen sex" and "11 to 19 year old sluts" (as displayed on Yahoo!

Yahoo announced today that its Yahoo Messenger chat program is being discontinued on Juy 17th 2018. They are now directing users towards their Squirrel chat app that is currently in beta.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo, the most-used Internet site, has shut down all its user-created chat rooms amid concerns that adults were using the sites to try to have sex with minors.

Yahoo Inc. has shut some Internet chat rooms after companies including PepsiCo Inc. and Georgia-Pacific Corp. pulled advertising, citing concerns that the sites were being used by adults to lure ...

Chat rooms that could be used by sexual predators seeking access to children will be shut down by Yahoo Inc. under terms of an agreement between the Internet portal and the attorneys general of ...

Yahoo has agreed to shut down Internet chat rooms designed to promote sex between adults and children. The agreement with the attorneys general of New York and Nebraska is the first to institute ...

New York – Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday it will bar chat rooms that promote sex between minors and adults and restrict all chat rooms to users 18 and older. The changes come under an agreement with ...

Yahoo Inc., the most popular Internet site, shut down all of its user-created chat rooms this week after three blue-chip companies found their online ads running alongside discussions of sex with ...

Yahoo also will deny posting of all rooms that encourage sex acts between adults and minors. Should any slip through, Yahoo must purge such chat rooms within 24 hours from when it becomes aware of ...

NEW YORK — Yahoo! Inc. said yesterday it will bar chat rooms that promote sex between minors and adults and restrict all chat rooms to users 18 and older.