Currently when you leave a chatroom, all of the chat history is deleted.

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But, as this legislation and Microsoft's chatroom U-turn both show, the battle over internet security is far from finished.

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Others may simply move to other chatroom providers, such as AOL and Yahoo!

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When half the members of a teenage girls' online chatroom turned out to be middle-aged men, it was hardly a Tocquevillean moment.

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Husky Chat, a new Chrome extension, turns any website into a chatroom by overlaying a simple, drop-down chat window over each page on the web.

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Mr Restivo came to Bournemouth in 2002 to move in with his now wife who he had met on an internet chatroom, he told the court.

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Because Krautchan.net is an image hosting site - rather than a true chatroom - it would be very easy for someone then to upload that doctored image.

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Since up to 5 people can get in on the action at the same time, you essentially end up with a portable, private chatroom that has text, audio, and image support.

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Chatroom troublemakers can be tried and disconnected.

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Although this year's winner in fact came from Saudi Arabia, the mobile carriers cite a religious fatwa that condemned the show as immoral as their rationale here, and Reuters is reporting that Saudi chatroom users have actually been praising the bans.

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