Omegle: ‘How I got the dangerous chat site closed down’
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"Alice" speaks exclusively to the BBC after her successful lawsuit against Omegle forced it offline.

BBC: The woman who successfully sued the website that matched her with a paedophile explains how she forced the site to close down. ‘Alice’, or A.M. as she was known in court says she feels "vindic…::“Alice” speaks exclusively to the BBC after her successful lawsuit against Omegle forced it offline.

    • FishFace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      1 year ago

      You haven’t said why it matters it was privately run.

      It matters that it had private rooms, but there tend to be private areas in public spaces like parks too. The analogy actually works much better if the kid’s computer is in a public place and they don’t have unrestricted access to the internet through a phone - obviously in either case it’s harder to abuse someone in secret if you have to take the initial risk of meeting somewhere you could be spotted, and only then move it private.

      • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        You’re really desperate to divert from the fact that the owner knew what was going on and did basically nothing to stop it. And it made money.

        • FishFace@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          1 year ago

          He did take action to stop it - he aided in multiple prosecutions. What he didn’t do was turn the site into something completely different, with mandatory registration.

          • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Meanwhile, in reality:

            In the last two years, the site has been mentioned in more than 50 cases against paedophiles, and calls from child protection charities like the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and the United Nations were ignored.

            • FishFace@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              How does that contradict what I said, or else what point are you trying to make?

              Even though you’re quite sure the site owner needed to do more to stop paedophiles, you haven’t said what. Is what you think he should have done to have sacrificed anonymity?

              • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                I pasted the content of the article, which is the exact opposite of your claim. So… Care to back up your claim, or are you pulling it out of thin air?

                • FishFace@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Statement by Leif K-Brooks:

                  Omegle’s moderation even had a positive impact beyond the site. Omegle worked with law enforcement agencies, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, to help put evildoers in prison where they belong. There are “people” rotting behind bars right now thanks in part to evidence that Omegle proactively collected against them, and tipped the authorities off to.

                  Example article: https://www.guelphmercury.com/news/crime/guelph-man-can-no-longer-be-teacher-after-child-porn-conviction/article_7b1fca76-cef1-56e5-a9e7-cb9091ac43bb.html

                  The NCMEC received information from Omegle about the activities of a paedophile and it led to their conviction.

                  But your quote is not the opposite of my claim. It says that “the site has been mentioned in more than 50 cases against paedophiles.” How many of those cases included evidence collected and submitted by Omegle?

                  Do please answer my question:

                  Even though you’re quite sure the site owner needed to do more to stop paedophiles, you haven’t said what. Is what you think he should have done to have sacrificed anonymity?

                  • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
                    11·
                    1 year ago

                    Oh, I see. You’re simping for the owner of the website. Despite the fact that, in the article you posted, it was the police who did all the work and the website owner who did not.