"Rather than shutdown user-created chat rooms in mass, Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., should have targeted only those involved in the illicit behavior, said the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a free speech and privacy advocate in San Francisco.
'This is a real overreaction on the part of Yahoo,' Annalee Newitz, policy analyst for the EFF, said. 'To just unilaterally shut down chat rooms is really chilling to free speech.'"
Sorry guys, this was not "free speech". The reason they are pulling the plug is because sponsors are pulling the ad dollars they need to survive.
I do not see the EFF rushing in to put up chat rooms for all these people. If they are not going to do that, why do they have the nerve to tell Yahoo how to run their business. Yahoo cannot afford to run chat rooms without sponsors. And some sponsors were pulling company wide not just in the chats.
