Yahoo! to restrict chat room use

[mandy]

Yahoo 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 New York attorney-general Eliot Spitzer and Nebraska attorney-general Jon Bruning.

The company also is eliminating the teen chat category and limiting usage of all chat rooms to adults, although it was not clear how the company would prevent children from signing up as adults because credit cards are not required.

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