AOL was apart of the problem

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOHell

>In the manual, the creator of AOHell claims that he created the program >because the AOL administrators would frequently shut down hacker and >warez chatrooms for violation of AOL's terms of service while refusing to >shut down the pedophilia chat rooms which regularly traded child >pornography.[4] "Da Chronic" claimed that when he confronted AOL's >TOSAdvisor about it, he was met with an account deletion: