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27 Sep 2003
MSN Chat
MSN announced that it will close down its public, free, unmoderated chat channels. AOL made a similar move eralier this year. MSN Chat seems to be a very popular service. MSN claims that people misuse the chat channels for child porn and spam.
It is unclear what the real reasons are behind this move. It can’t be spam nor child porn. If you are into that, then there a much better ways to hide your conversations. The real reason is much more likely business wise (how to earn money from chat) or public opinion (they do not want to be connected to negative use of their chat channels). All in all it is a bit silly and shows what large companies can do.
[By way of Wired