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What happened to the plaintiff was really messed up, but I don't see how it's the site's problem. Suppose you answer a newspaper personal ad, meet up with the p
by 4star3star 3y ago
What happened to the plaintiff was really messed up, but I don't see how it's the site's problem. Suppose you answer a newspaper personal ad, meet up with the person and get all your limbs chopped off. Yeah, that fucking sucks, but we're not about to shut down the newspaper.
- IshKebab 3y agoMaybe... But if this is a real problem with Omegle (the article mentions that it is a common grooming platform) then it's not like there's nothing they could do. Did it even have age verification? On balance I still think Omegle should win the case, but I don't think it's entirely without merit.
- Seattle3503 3y agoAge verification would probably require some form of ID, killing the site.
- randunel 3y agoDid the internet provider have age verification? The DNS Resolution service? The SSL certificate authority? What about the electricity company? Or any other service or non-service provider which contributes in one way or another to online streaming, such as Logitech for providing a webcam, Dell for the computer, Nvidia for the graphics card. After all, no grooming happened on omegle, that's just where they shared contact details. Grooming apparently happened on other platforms, and the common denominator seems to be the internet and everything that makes it work, not omegle.
- johnnyanmac 3y agomy thoughts exactly. I don't understand why people are so hasty to blame any and all tangentially related to societal issues. But it happens all the time for websites who exist and let people post content.