Yahoo pulls plug on chat rooms after sex report

Reacting to angry protests from several of its top sponsors, Yahoo has pulled the plug on perhaps hundreds of chat rooms operating on its site after a news report revealed that some of the rooms were used to promote sex with minors.

Companies such as PepsiCo, State Farm Insurance and Georgia-Pacific stopped advertising on Yahoo after they were informed that adults were attempting to lure children into sexual encounters within some of Yahoo's user-created chat rooms, according to a report by KPRC-TV in Houston.

KPRC reported that, in some cases, men were using web cameras to send lewd pictures to minors in chat rooms with such titles as Younger Girls 4 Older Guys and Girls 13 and Under for Older Guys.