Couldn't this have been any website with a messaging system on it? Twitter, facebook, even email.
I don't get how they can sue Omegle for this.
Edit: was it because of the video component of Omegle?
I don't get how they can sue Omegle for this.
Edit: was it because of the video component of Omegle?
> I don't get how they can sue Omegle for this.
Take it as a sign that if tech community doesn't wake up and own up to this and try to solve the issue somehow then not just individual services but the entire idea of e2ee messaging is going to become illegal...
Do tech companies need to verify government issued IDs to register new users?
Like proving I am at least 18 years old without giving out my birth date or name.
Is it up to telecom engineers to “wake up” and own that they’re facilitating this abuse? It seems like one of those finger pointing cases which falls apart when any level of scrutiny is applied.
But some ambulance chasing lawyer told them they have a chance to win in this case.
You are in a clear majority position but still pretend to be persecuted and victimized by an imagined boogeyman.
Omegle (business model: "Uber for child grooming")
I had no view either way until reading this thread, and seeing that many adults used the site, which it seems did nothing illegal. Their greatest sin it seems was allowing humans to connect with one another. Something that’s increasingly seen as a danger that requires government intervention into.
If people could go back in time, we would never have public education because “it attracts predators and facilitates child victimization!”
See how stupid that is?
Of this thread. I presume the vast majority of people don't really care about Omegle, and I wouldn't be surprised if most of the nostalgic commenters here haven't actually used it since 2009. I have semi recently, and let me tell you there was a lot more dick on there than I remember.
I do find it weird that most of this post is blaming (in order) the family, the government, woke society. It seems fairly obvious to me we should be blaming the people showing their dicks to everyone and the pedophiles.
Overall I understand any site choosing to shut down rather than having to foot the bill of policing their users, I probably would too.
> If people could go back in time, we would never have public education because “it attracts predators and facilitates child victimization!”
We both know this isn't true. We still have church after all.
There is no point in blaming parts of the system that we can't change. As a society, we have mechanisms for changing liability laws and allowing/banning free communication. But there is no mechanism that has a worthwhile cost for ensuring there are no pedophiles in the world.
Yeah, you should bring up snail mail next.
Even if we imagine someone using SMS in this day and age, still no one uses it to send photos or videos or broadcast live abuse.
> Is it up to telecom engineers to “wake up”
For better or worse a lot of what they do is considered essential service (calling emergency, disaster response etc).
e2ee messaging isn't essential, and yes ordinary non-tech people are waking up to harmful uses of it. If tech industry doesn't own up to that and work to combat those, someone else will and in that case rest assured you will not like the result:)