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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor

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Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Omegle connected strangers to one another and had a long-standing problem of pairing minors with sexual predators. A legal settlement took it down.

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Chat Roulette, the site Omegle copied the video format from, had a built in report option that would ban nude people.

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