Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor::Omegle connected strangers to one another and had a long-standing problem of pairing minors with sexual predators. A legal settlement took it down.
Shitty parenting and lawyer shutdown something free and fun.
testfactor@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Like, I don’t really care one way or another, but are we not on Omegle’s side on this one?
Like, yes, Omegle was a cess pit. We all knew that. It was basically 4chan with video chat. But, like, this case seems like a parenting failure more than anything, right?
I don’t know that I see why this is Omegle’s fault really, and it’s kinda dumb they had to shut down over it.
Steve@communick.news 7 months ago
I was thinking along the similar lines. Omegle should have shut down because it’s entire concept is obviously functionally useless to any purpose that isn’t abuse.
I’m almost certain the word Forced is the wrong word there. Convinced, coerced, conned, tricked, scammed? Blackmailed maybe? Hell, even hoodwinked or bamboozled. But by definition nobody on a video chat can force anyone to do anything. They aren’t physically in the room to do any forcing.
Even the title! Omegle wasn’t Forced to shut down. They negotiated and agreed to it as part of the settlement.
This kind of intensifying language is manipulative, and it always irks me.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yikes