MSN Imposes Mass Chatroom Closure
Posted: 24th Sep, 2003 By: MarkJ
In response to the growing problems of abuse, from 14th October MSN will close all of its online chatrooms in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and most of Asia. The move has been welcomed by childrens charities, while others have been angered by the extreme action:
MSN UK's Matt Whittingham told BBC News Online it was not a decision they had taken lightly. "We have been concerned about chatrooms for a while and reached a stage where we were no longer prepared to put up with inappropriate communication," he said.
The only chat service available to MSN users in the UK will be the free instant messaging service, MSN Messenger, which is not so open and gives people more control over who they talk to.
Chatrooms on MSN's other global sites will either be supervised - or moderated - by an adult 24 hours a day, or will be on a credit card subscription-basis only. It means no free, unmoderated chatrooms will exist anymore on any of MSN's global network of sites.
Unfortunately instead of trying to adapt and combat the problem, MSN have taken an extreme course of action that will ultimately have very little effect. There are plenty more services available. More @ BBC News Online.
MSN UK's Matt Whittingham told BBC News Online it was not a decision they had taken lightly. "We have been concerned about chatrooms for a while and reached a stage where we were no longer prepared to put up with inappropriate communication," he said.
The only chat service available to MSN users in the UK will be the free instant messaging service, MSN Messenger, which is not so open and gives people more control over who they talk to.
Chatrooms on MSN's other global sites will either be supervised - or moderated - by an adult 24 hours a day, or will be on a credit card subscription-basis only. It means no free, unmoderated chatrooms will exist anymore on any of MSN's global network of sites.
Unfortunately instead of trying to adapt and combat the problem, MSN have taken an extreme course of action that will ultimately have very little effect. There are plenty more services available. More @ BBC News Online.
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