Pro-Family Spokesman Says Yahoo Still Providing Portal For Porn Trade
by Rusty Pugh
November 25, 2003
(AgapePress) - A Family Research Council spokesman says contrary to some media reports one of the world's largest internet portal companies never got out of the porn business. In fact, the popular internet services company has actually expanded in that area.At least one newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, recently reported that, under pressure from pro-family groups, Yahoo had taken steps to distance itself from pornography. But Pat Trueman, senior advisor at the Family Research Council, contends that this is simply not true. In reality, he says, Yahoo is continuing to enable pedophiles to carry on their sordid activities online.
"What they never got out of," Trueman says, "and what they continue to build are the clubs people can join for free that distribute hardcore pornography and child pornography." The center's spokesman says one of the ways these clubs work is by using provocative names that would entice someone to join, such as 'Young Girls for Older Men.'"
Trueman says the Internet company even makes it possible for pedophiles to exchange pictures of children, and sometimes even worse things are going on. "Yahoo has set up pedophiles to have all they want, except a real child, on their site," he says, "but also [Yahoo club sites] have postings where people can post messages, and often people will talk about a child they are molesting -- and even go so far as to offer to trade a child with others who are interested."
According to Trueman, Attorney General John Ashcroft still refuses to go after Yahoo on obscenity charges, even though the official claims that fighting porn is a top priority. So for the moment, it appears Yahoo is untouchable in its pursuit of profits from hard core child pornography and other kinds of online porn.
