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Couldn't this have been any website with a messaging system on it? Twitter, facebook, even email. I don't get how they can sue Omegle for this. Edit: was it b
by buf 3y ago
Couldn't this have been any website with a messaging system on it? Twitter, facebook, even email.
I don't get how they can sue Omegle for this.
Edit: was it because of the video component of Omegle?
- throwaway290 3y agoTwitter, Facebook, Gmail, Telegram, WhatsApp, Zoom and all those companies with UGC have this, responsible ones report it (Meta does lots, not sure Twitter does anymore, Telegram never did). > I don't get how they can sue Omegle for this. Take it as a sign that if tech community doesn't wake up and own up to this and try to solve the issue somehow then not just individual services but the entire idea of e2ee messaging is going to become illegal...
- buf 3y agoI'm not sure exactly the tech community needs to own up to. Allowing an 11 year old who has irresponsible parents to use the internet? Do tech companies need to verify government issued IDs to register new users?
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoIn some countries: yes. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/gaming-china-crackdown https://www.wired.co.uk/article/gaming-china-crackdown
- master-lincoln 3y agoThat would be a reasonable solution if there would be any government who could provide a digital attestation scheme that allows to prove attributes without giving out the identity. Afaik it's possible technically. Just not wanted apparently Like proving I am at least 18 years old without giving out my birth date or name.
- joenot443 3y agoOrders of magnitude more grooming and misconduct is done over SMS than was ever done over Omegle. Is it up to telecom engineers to “wake up” and own that they’re facilitating this abuse? It seems like one of those finger pointing cases which falls apart when any level of scrutiny is applied.
- nottorp 3y agoThey probably couldn't afford to sue a mobile phone provider :) But some ambulance chasing lawyer told them they have a chance to win in this case.
- concordDance 3y agoA large portion of commentators here greatly dislike the idea of unmonitored interactions between humans. Their ideal is that every person's cellphone continuously records nearby conversations and sends them to the police where they can run large language models to provide a shortlist of dangerous communications that a policeman can then look at and charge for.
- fkyoureadthedoc 3y agoWe all know this is not true, not even close. Read through the comments here, there's a clear overwhelming majority opinion blaming the family rather than the company. Even beyond this post, I've never seen this called for on this site. You are in a clear majority position but still pretend to be persecuted and victimized by an imagined boogeyman.