Parul Amlani, the owner of , a chat site which gets 50,000 visitors every month, told the London Evening Standard that his site was monitored by just 15 volunteers and that it was open to exploitation by paedophiles.
He said: "Someone will always get through the net. It is impossible to police the system totally, even in the best intentioned website. It would be impossible to stop people passing on mobile phone numbers or contact details."
Amlani added: "It is analogous to a knife manufacturer -- most people simply buy them for preparing food but there is no way of stopping them being used to harm."
Amlani's company currently runs the biggest teen chat site in the country, which makes its money through advertising from companies targeting the "tween" age group. Channel 4, for instance, advertised on the site to look for participants for its show 'The Salon'.
As the government comes under increasing pressure to legislate on the problem of chatrooms, experts were reported to have concurred with Amlani's views.
One told the London evening paper: "The nature of the internet is such that you can not regulate just in your own country. The only real solution is to have every country in the world taking action, which is obviously impossible."
"Parents have to be far more careful and more alert to the very real dangers lurking out there," he added.
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