[Air-l] The death of chat?

[salterl]

Not completely related, but Tower Hamlets Council in London is banning the use 
of such features for the same reason - pedophillia. Now I am waiting for them 
to ban the use of parks, schoolyards and pavements too!

>===== Original Message From air-l at aoir.org =====
>That was the reporting in DK as well - but the argument that chatrooms are 
used by pedophiles to meet children was mentioned as well.
>:-) Gitte
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Jones" <sjones at uic.edu>
>To: <air-l at aoir.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:56 PM
>Subject: Re: [Air-l] The death of chat?
>
>
>> Given the international membership on this list I'd be very
>> interested in hearing reactions to MSN's announcement from outside
>> the U.S. The news stories I heard about it on the radio in the U.S.
>> emphasized spam and porn as being the reasons for the closing. Is
>> that the reporting elsewhere?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sj
>>
>> At 12:04 PM -0400 9/24/03, Karim R. Lakhani wrote:
>> >I think this means the web based chat rooms and not IM or real time
>> >chat service.
>> >
>> >J Sternberg wrote:
>> >
>> >>With Internet Relay Chat flourishing worldwide since its creation
>> >>in 1988, as well as the ongoing popularity of AOL's Instant
>> >>Messenger, it seems to me that chat won't be dying out any time
>> >>soon. Although I don't know of any definitive statistics, my
>> >>impression is that compared to systems such as IRC and AIM, MSN
>> >>chat has been just a drop in the bucket.
>> >>
>> >>Janet Sternberg, Ph.D.
>> >>Assistant Professor
>> >>Department of Communication and Media Studies
>> >>Fordham University
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>Lois Ann Scheidt wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>  MSN has announced that it will be closing or significantly changing 
its
>> >>>chatrooms worldwide, effective October 14.  The announcement can be 
found
>> >>>at
>> >>>http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=40329
>> >>>
>> >>>Lois Ann Scheidt MPA MIS SPHR CCP
>> >>>Doctoral Student
>> >>>School of Library and Information Science
>> >>>Indiana University
>> >>>Bloomington IN USA
>> >>>http://www.loisscheidt.com
>> >>>
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