internet companies look the other way

i've written before about the rather cavalier attitude ebay takes with regard to crime enabling. apparently, the profits that can be derived from such crime enabling outweighs the need to stop the crime.

after all, yahoo took action, shutting down some paedophile-themed chat rooms only after advertisers dropped out due to a tv report.

Peter Carr, editor of specialist online title ChatMag.com, told us: "I've talked to Yahoo! about this before, there was a petition last year asking them to moderate their chat rooms but they've never done anything." Carr said Yahoo pulled the plug on customer-created chatrooms late on Friday night to avoid media attention.

perhaps further motivation of this belated action came with a lawsuit filed against yahoo for distribution of pictures depicting a victim's sexual abuse.