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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Can someone explain in short what problem people had about Omegle?

Was it that you can say things (and show things) there to a random person without any good possibility to trace it back to you because it's anonymous and more "temporary" then something like Lemmy for example?

Or was it just a witch hunt without any real reasonable structure?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (18 children)

People argue that despite its moderation, it was pretty vulnerable to exploitation and sex abuse

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah it's the degree of creepiness and antisocial attitudes that can come free under the strange mix of anonymity, risk of doxxing and other things

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I think those had an effect, though from my brief reading of the post he seems to blame criticism of CSAM prevention and moderation.

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