http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/2...chat/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/2...tion/index.html
Those are two different articles both talking about the same things, and in case you are under time constraints, i'll sum 'em up. Microsoft is deciding to end offering chat rooms to MSN messager users in Europe and many other countries. They will continue to move to allow only paying subscribers to the currently free service to chat. This move is to attempt to decrease pedophiles and smam0rz and all that shiat none of us like when we are trying to hit on the sexy bots. ;) ;)
but seriously...
if you read the second article, you'll see that there is a large group of people in the UK harping about violation of free speech. so i guess i was just fishing for ideas, opinions.
my opinion:
are they fucking kidding me? at the point where microsoft is a private corporation this debate is pretty much over. they dont HAVE to let us verbally molest children via their servers. they dont HAVE to let us set up wide-scale anarchist moviements via their servers. there is no right being violated here. it is a completely unbiased removal of nonpaying members. the justification for allowing only paying members? so their records are on file in case suspicious activity needs to be investigated. it seems like a good idea to me, pedophiles may be driven off due to desire to keep their billing info private, and spam-mail companies who send in hundreds of bots into numerous different chat rooms will not be as inclined to subscribe for every one of those bots.
hit me baby one more time. ;)