Is Yahoo Back In The Porn Business?
from the where-are-the-worried-parents? dept
A few years ago, a bored reporter was surfing around Yahoo and noticed that within their market place area you could buy pornographic DVDs (though, in a well marked section that was clearly not for kids) and that for certain search terms, Yahoo was returning advertisements for porn websites. Now, we won’t ask how this reporter “just happened” to stumble across this information, but his article sent the groups that get concerned about such things into a tizzy and they threatened Yahoo with all sorts of bad publicity. Yahoo backed down and removed the DVDs and the banner ads. Now, however, with their purchase of Overture, it turns out they’re back in the porn ad selling business, and are hoping that the same groups that spent so much time and effort protesting a few years ago won’t notice. Now, personally, I have no problems with Yahoo selling whatever they want, so long as it isn’t illegal, but it will be interesting to see (a) if anyone cares this time around and (b) if Yahoo backs down again.
