better late than never, i guess

internet companies often look the other way (at best) and even enable crimes with reckless abandon.

only now has yahoo! agreed to 'ban the creation of new chatrooms with names that promote sex between adults and minors'

Some of the chat rooms had names like "girls13 & up for much older men", "8-12 yo girls for older men", and "teen girls for older fat men". Many of these were lurking in the Teen chat, or even Schools and Education categories.
If the company does decide to allow user-created chat rooms again, it says it will now screen all the names and will remove any deemed offensive with 24 hours. It will also make it easier to report and follow up "inappropriate" behaviour in chatrooms and will alert users that their IP address are being logged. It has also agreed to do more to educate children about online safety, including making a donation to a national charity for missing children, and running free banner adverts for the same organisation. [emphasis added]

the disturbing thing is these policies should have been in place from the beginning

¶ - nitish @ 12:08 PM