Sep 24, 2003

MSN shuts down its chatrooms

BBC:Microsoft's internet service MSN is to cut back drastically its chatroom services because of concerns about child safety, it said. MSN is closing all its chatrooms in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and most of Asia from 14 October, and changing the way others are operated globally. "As a responsible leader we feel it necessary to make these changes because online chat services are increasingly being misused," it said...