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Omegle shuts down for good (www.omegle.com)

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[-] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago

The battle for Omegle has been lost, but the war against the Internet rages on. Virtually every online communication service has been subject to the same kinds of attack as Omegle; and while some of them are much larger companies with much greater resources, they all have their breaking point somewhere. I worry that, unless the tide turns soon, the Internet I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection. If that sounds like a bad idea to you, please consider donating to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that fights for your rights online.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I don't see how an organization that fights for my rights online is gonna stop people from being assholes tbh

[+] Prethoryn@lemmy.world -112 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Didn't Omegle have issues with child porn.

"Genuine human connection."

Look get the feeling of talking to people anonymously on the Internet but we aren't going to turn to robots because a video service shut down.

Fuck platforms like Omegle. Until their are better ways of restricting behavior that harms minors on platforms like Omegle I will take this as an opportunity to say, "time to move one."

EDIT: Didn't think this comment would open up this many issues. It is clear that Lemmy blames parents for not knowing what their child is doing 24/7 because apparently parents should know everything their child is doing. What an ideal world. I still stand by the previous statement. Fuck Omegle and fuck anyone who thinks their isn't an issue with child predators and Omegle and the abuse that has gone in their for years.

Let's not forget SSSniperwolfs video of asking 16 year olds to flash on Omegle and monetizing that on YouTube.

[-] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 117 points 10 months ago

You're exactly the kind of person who would beg to shut down central park because someone got mugged there, just like he talks about in the article, which you clearly didn't read.

[-] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 10 months ago

Oh no, not the children!

Wouldn't be an issue if parents properly monitored the kid's Internet access.

[-] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

There's child porn on the internet. Let's ban the entire internet to stop it.

At least then I won't have to read your dumb thoughts anymore.

[+] MamboGator@lemmy.world -38 points 10 months ago

I never used Omegle but got the impression it was basically "what if 4chan but video." I also relate to the fears of the corporatization of the internet, but I feel that is more like "we need more places like Neocities" and not "we need to protect our cesspools from regulation."

[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 31 points 10 months ago

I never used Omegle but got the impression it was basically "what if 4chan but video."

You. You're the problem. You're what's wrong with the internet.

[+] MamboGator@lemmy.world -28 points 10 months ago

Because I think that a site's owners have a responsibility to curate their content to prevent illegal material from proliferating?

[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 35 points 10 months ago

You already admitted you don't even know anything about the site, your opinion is invalid. Thanks for playing.

[+] MamboGator@lemmy.world -33 points 10 months ago

I know from the various summaries that it was shut down because the owner couldn't prevent his users from using it to distribute illegal material including child porn, and so he gave up fighting them over it. Since you're so upset by its shutdown, I'll just go ahead and also assume that you were personally affected by this decision. You might want to listen for the 4chan Party Van.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Reading the article it sounded more like he was tired of dealing with people who hated on the platform - like you.

They had moderators working full time and numerous protections in place (including AI that detected nudity). They actually led to the arrest of many paedophiles and had numoerous contacts with international law enforcement and child protection agencies.

If you read the article you'd see he was more ruined by the people screeching it needs to be shut down because it was a nest of paedos. People who'd probably never fucking used the site (like you) who'd just heard rumours (like you) and had no fucking clue about the moderation and arrests that went on in the background.

Guess what - paedos will always fucking exist. If anything Omegle was a honeypot for the stupid few who thought they could use it and get away with it only to find out they couldn't and got arrested.

Instead now paedos will go elsewhere. More underground. Harder to find. Harder to catch.

Congratulations. You're ignorant pearl clutching is precisely what the site admin couldn't deal with anymore and you've made paedos harder to catch in the act.

I hope you're proud.

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 29 points 10 months ago

I never used Omegle

Then why are you talking about it? Why come here just to spew completely uniformed conjecture?

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