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Bill O'Reilly is giving phone sex a bad name. In a steamy "she-said, he-said" scandal, the host of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" was sued two weeks ago by his associate producer, Andrea Mackris, who alleges that he subjected her to unwanted face-to-face and telephone conversations laced with graphic sexual talk.According to her lawsuit, which is posted on thesmokinggun.com Web site, on several occasions...
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Report The Age, September 25 Pedophiles and junk mail distributors have forced Microsoft's MSN network to close its internet chat rooms in Australia and 27 other countries. The Australian site was still operating last night, but users are being advised that it will be closed in the next few days. Yahoo, the other major chat room operator in Australia, will not close its site, but says it is watching the traffic closely. Telstra also has a small chat facility. A spokeswoman said...
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DAYTON - Who says the World Wide Web is way too impersonal? Thanks to some Internet giants, virtual hangouts are making it easier for Miami Valley residents to plan events for the real world.Some online powerhouses - Yahoo, Excite and Lycos - and Dayton's ActiveDayton.com have been promoting features that can get a group of Web surfers online and connected in a matter of minutes. And if need be, they can make plans in computerland for events in the physical world.Numerous...
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Internet chat rooms are a useful public space for people to socialize or share common interests. But they can also be a danger to children whose identities or locations are given out or discovered. In June 2000, a federal study revealed nearly 1 in 5 teenagers who regularly use the Internet said they'd received an unwanted sexual solicitation or approach on the Net in the previous year. In 65 percent of those instances, the youth "met" the solicitor...
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MSN to shut free chat rooms Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, will close free Internet chat rooms on its MSN Web sites to help prevent junk e-mail and block access to pedophiles. MSN, which has 350 million users each month, will stop chat services in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. MSN will introduce pay services in the United States, Canada and Japan starting Oct. 14. Chat rooms let users converse using text and have been used by...