Omegle: ‘How I got the dangerous chat site closed down’
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"Alice" speaks exclusively to the BBC after her successful lawsuit against Omegle forced it offline.

BBC: The woman who successfully sued the website that matched her with a paedophile explains how she forced the site to close down. ‘Alice’, or A.M. as she was known in court says she feels "vindic…::“Alice” speaks exclusively to the BBC after her successful lawsuit against Omegle forced it offline.

  • NuXCOM_90PercentEnglish
    633·
    7 months ago

    It means what it has meant since the first fifty seconds someone used chat roulette or uno on Xbox

    Random unmoderated sites like this are horrifying and a danger to both people and society.

    There are arguments to be made about moderation in general. But this is not a high capacity rifle with questionable purpose. This is a pistol where the barrel is pointed backwards

    • Hacksaw@lemmy.caEnglish
      111·
      7 months ago

      I can see your argument that you shouldn’t meet strangers in a private place. I mean in real life you would go to a public space if you wanted to meet new people rather than invite strangers into your living room. That wouldn’t be safe and people who facilitate that would be pretty irresponsible. That’s basically what omegle was doing.

      I might be coming around. I think this will have to be very carefully managed to avoid slipping too far. There are already conservatives pushing for mandatory government ID check for viewing adult material online. I could easily see that same narrative pushed here. I think there is a real danger to the kind of censorship that is created when anonymity is removed by mandate from the internet.