I think parents should take some responsibility here. The park analogy that the creator of omegle made is interesting, we don't shutdown parks because a crime

I think parents should take some responsibility here. The park analogy that the creator of omegle made is interesting, we don't shutdown parks because a crime may take place there. And why not just remove video chat completely and keep the text chat and with higher moderation and tools, it should have been possible to keep the problems at bay. We might try to out reason the following argument but I do believe it demands reflection. Omegle was about the only popular mass media which was fully distributed, allowed for random encounters with people. I am reminded of Aaron Swartz. And, I have a deep suspicion that Omegle's shutdown being part of the lawsuit settlement has a lot more to the story. And probably the creator also had to sign NDA or something.