U.K. Retailers Drop Habbo Cards

[Someone Depressing]

I play Habbo, either for fun or because I'm bored, or because I'm reminded of the fact that I have, what, 10 starving labradors in my house, shagging each other and farting.

I've never really seen or noticed any predators in Habbo, but I usually don't leave my rooms alot.

Ofcourse, compared to IMVU, I doubt it'd be a problem. I mean, 50% of IMVU is cyber-sex and making out, and the other 50% is actually social-interaction with other people, usually ruined by the lack of being able to leave fixed points, and thus leaves out visual roleplay.

 

[Dangit2019]

Whats the bet that in 10 years time, news outlets will be reporting that pedos are trolling in WoW?

It'd be funny to see them try to pose as pedos in games like CoD, MW and Halo.

I'm pretty sure that people will be reporting about homophobia on Xbox Live some time after the Xbox 720 comes out.

 

[Woodsey]

Habbo still exists?
Christ, I was on that when I was like, 10.

Yeah yeah yeah, and I bet you had little blonde pigtails too. Back in your cave, paedo!

But seriously, I'm surprised its taken 12 years for people to catch on to the fact that this was going to be Paedophile Central.

 

[MetalMagpie]

A child is statistically more likely to be molested by a family member or a catholic priest than a stranger online.

Not least because the family members (and Catholic priests) have actual physical access to the child! To be molested by a stranger online, the child needs to arrange to meet the stranger without their parents' knowledge. What happened to telling kids about "stranger danger"?

To be clear, I'm not saying this doesn't happen. But a stranger online convincing your child to meet up with them still seems like a far lesser danger than a stranger on the street forcing them into a car on their way to school, which is in turn a lesser danger than an adult the child trusts (such as a family member) abusing that trust.

 

[diceplaya]

I've been messaging Paul Lafontaine about illegal casinos, operation of child sex rooms and other illegal activity since September 2011. Prior to that I was emailing Ex-CEO Timo Soininen. in 2006 Timo Soininen responded to one of my emails saying he would investigate the situation of child cyber sex. He ended up neglecting the children by doing nothing. He then ignored thousands of emails from hundreds of people up until 2011 when CEO - Paul Lafontaine took over this child brothel. After 6 years of witnessing some of the most disgusting behaviour I decided to start a twitter account called http://www.twitter.com/habboboycott several months before this issue hit the news.I was so disgusted by what I seen i was ready to dedicate my entire life to raise awareness about Sickos like Paul Lafontaine who many believe organize teams of spammers to gather teens within the network he controls to develope child pornography. Paul Lafontaine has made it his personal battle to ban anyone bringing attention to the sick problems within his community. Imagine sending him am email and within hours being banned for reporting this issue that could have been clearly prevented if anyone within this heartly organization cared. The fact is the people who own Habbo have known about the issue and have done nothing about it. They have actually contributed to the issue by releasing furniture that resemble sex toys, included sex rooms under the staff pick list and banned players who questioned why rooms like "Sex club" is the highest rated room on habbo. All Habbo staff and management should have been arrested locked away for life for knowningly neglecting a serious issue like this. Justice will prevail and Paul Lafontain, Timo Soininen and the rest of the owners will be arrested without a doubt!

 

[rob_simple]

Had these people never been on the internet before? God help them if they make a documentary about Chat Roulette.

"Within minutes I was being exposed to a cornucopia of flaccid penises and Nazi salutes, then at one point I was chatting to Justin Bieber and the Jonas Brothers, which was weird; especially when they asked for 'Tits or GTFO'."