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Humans mostly have "acceptable behavior" filters in public, but this system also stripped many of those away. Which led to a lot of people incorrectly assuming they could do bad stuff on this platform without consequences.
I think it's too bad this is the way it's got to go. Despite not really being a user, Omegle feels like part of Internet 1.5.