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Originally posted by towny
Hence another reason why I think this has very ilttle to do with child protection and more to do with:
1/ making more cash out of paid-for services
2/saving cash currently spent running 'free' services
3/covering themselves so when the inevitable day comes that someone tries to sue a service provider following an appalling paedophile outrage, M$ can hold its corporate hands up and plead, 'not guilty, due dilligence, your honour.'
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1) How? I thought the chat rooms were free?
2) Most corporations do this,
3) I don't know about Microsoft, but where I work, we enforce some rules purely so if there is a problem, we can hold our hands up and say "well, we have procedures in place to prevent this" to the relevant authorities. I think a lot of companies do this.
I have to admit, I don't use the Microsoft Chat rooms, so it doesn't affect me whether they are open or closed. It would be nice for Microsoft to stop dressing up an attempt to save money as a humanitarian gesture though.