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Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor

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Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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Omegle connected strangers to one another and had a long-standing problem of pairing minors with sexual predators. A legal settlement took it down.

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the internet wasn’t actually that available til 1994 or so, and the dot-com boom was late 90s.

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