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No cafe would allow an adult to sexually groom a child while sitting at a table.
No parent would allow their child to communicate with a groomer.
Well, her parents clearly did.
Omegle 2009-2023
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Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#992Good riddance and here's why: Jon Minadeo II ( https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/neo-nazi-jon-mina... ) had been using Omegle for sometime to spread racist and antisemitic ideas to young kids. With no way to police this activity and no law against doing so, he appeared to be increasing his following. I used to be a "free internet" advocate, but the older I get and as a parent, my thinking has changed. We hav…
You could also just, y'know, be a better parent. Put some effort into raising your kids, and you'll reap the rewards. Ideally, build a relationship with them where they aren't afraid to discuss what they watch or who they talk to online. If you've already screwed that up, you can always intervene with technological or physical parental controls, whether that's using a Pi Hole to block certain websites, confiscating a device, or simply shutting off the router after a certain hour.
Don't make your problem into everybody's problem.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#993Bro
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#994Earlier quoted context omitted.
For people who are looking for this -- It's a common refrain on Twitter that Twitter can be a better dating app than actual dating apps. I think the mechanism here is similar -- both Twitter and Omegle encourage a sort of stream-of-consciousness, semi-anonymous communication style that facilitates soul entwinement.
I got dates from Amazon reviews (back when I used to write more Amazon reviews). It never became anything serious but the whole "find people online on not-dating sites just by communicating" is real.
Wow, how they contacted you?
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#995Gives me chills, that was so heartfelt and raw. Hurt on all sides, but this is a bit like losing access to a public space because someone committed crimes there. One of the greatest things Omegle enabled is this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhzHV9QD0Is (Harry Mack freestyling for random Omegle matches, it was a series of 90+ episodes and brought me and others so much joy during COVID)
Yup, Harry Mack is my boy ... I don't even use Omegle but am full aware of due to HMack ... RIP Omegle
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
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What ways could've headed off abuse thar wouldn't have defeated the entire purpose of the service - matching random people with each other?
Age verifying every user and not allowing children on the service at all, or only matching children with children, as an obvious first. Alternatively, maybe just randomly sampling video feeds and running them through an ML classifier to see if, I dunno, “adult male penis” was a high probability on one side and “extremely uncomfortable looking child” was a high probability on the other? In hindsight the entire purpose…
So one of your solutions to a service aimed at randomly match anonymous people is to get rid of anonymity?
I asked you how do you solve the problem without defeating the purpose of Omegle. Your solution is the equivalent to someone asking how to solve world hunger and you responding with "Just feed them. Duh."
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
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I've been on the internet since I was about 10 years old (I estimate). My parents knew (and understood) maybe 10% of what I did on there. As a minor, I did multiple criminal things online, some of them successful, others not so much. If I was a kid in 2023, I probably would've been arrested at some point in time. Because of what I know about the internet and because I know what kids will do with unlimited access, I t…
> But major platforms like TikTok are also massive sources of grooming and parents happily give their 10 year olds a smart phone. I've never used TikTok, but I find myself scrolling through Instagram reels quite often. It's so addicting. Recently, I've been seeing some extreme gore: people being lit on fire, bones snapping, fatal car accidents, sexually explicit content (cheating, etc.), etc. It's gotten to the point…
You can tell Instagram not to show you those kinds of videos. It takes persistence, but it really helps clean up your feed.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#999It seems the real reason this lawsuit found traction while similar ones against much larger platforms is precisely because Omegle sounds like a fairly shoestring operation. Platforms with an army of lawyers can surely fend lawsuits like this off without batting an eye. Apparently Omegle doesn't have an army of lawyers.
OP doesn't mention anything about a lawsuit - got more information on that? EDIT: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/1211807851/omegle-shut-down-l...
"The young woman, identified only as A.M., sought $22 million in damages in her lawsuit. Omegle was shut down days after the two sides agreed to settle the lawsuit."