• merthyr1831@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Yeah I remember using it and you had a bunch of creeps on there that sadly aren’t unique to omegle, but once one site gets a reputation of any kind its hard to beat.

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        10 months ago

        Omegle is a bit of a unique case due to their persistent non-action. Most places, if people start grooming children or broadcasting child porn, they’ll start banning offenders at the very lest. Omegle, nah.

        At one point, they put a warning splash screen “Careful: there are pedophiles that use this” or something like that, but they took the warning down after a while. And eventually they did officially say that you can’t use the site if you’re a minor, but of course it was just enforced through the honour system.

        Those are literally the only two actions they ever took to address criminal content and behaviour.

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      10 months ago

      Nah it’s the degree of creepiness and antisocial attitudes that can come free under the strange mix of anonymity, risk of doxxing and other things

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        10 months ago

        I think those had an effect, though from my brief reading of the post he seems to blame criticism of CSAM prevention and moderation.