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Msn Chat Rooms: Children
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Over in the UK, they simply can't get enough stories about children abducted be people after going into online chat rooms. If you read the news stories, you would think your chances of being abducted about hovering around 50% these days. Are the abductions a problem? Absolutely. But, all these news stories focus on blaming the chatrooms themselves, and not the sick individuals who do the abducting. All the hype about these chat rooms made MSN decide to shut down their chat rooms in the UK in a high profile move last year.
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There's overwhelming evidence that unmonitored chat rooms serve as havens for sexual predators. In the U.K. alone, where over 1 million users access MSN's chat rooms each month, the children's charity NCH has flagged at least 26 cases of child abduction or rape by pedophiles who found their victims in a range of chat rooms. As of next month, MSN aims to crush abuse of this real-time message exchange by closing it down in large parts of Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia, halting the spread of pornographic spam and the online "grooming" of youngsters by pedophiles. "Free, unmoderated chat is unsafe," says Sutton. "We took the view that closing it down was the best way to deal with it."
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Detective Dicken urges parents to encourage children to tell them if they receive any inappropriate messages in a chat room or e-mails and reward them for telling. Don't punish them by taking away access to the Internet.
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