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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor

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Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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Omegle connected strangers to one another and had a long-standing problem of pairing minors with sexual predators. A legal settlement took it down.

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I may be misremembering but I feel like it always had video.
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  It started just text
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    Fair enough. Maybe it had video by the time I discovered it or my memory is just failing me.

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