• MamboGator@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.”

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      1 year 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.

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          1 year ago

          You see these little up and down arrows? They seem to indicate who is speaking for the collective or not.

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        1 year ago

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

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

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            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.

            • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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              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.

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      I never used Omegle

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