Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor - eviltoast
  • ZzyzxRoad@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    God, this entire comment section is nothing but

    “I’m not victim blaming, but…”

    “personal responsibility”

    “parents should be doing blah blah blah…no, I don’t have kids.”

    The best parents in the world still can’t control what their kids are doing every second of every day. Kids will always find ways around every single thing that’s meant to restrict what they can do, see, or hear. I’m sure you never did stuff you weren’t supposed to when you were a kid…right?

    • Rediphile@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, and we could shut down the Internet all together… or we could be realistic about prevention.

      And yes, I accessed lots of ‘sensitive’ material online as a kid well before this website existed. So I find it hard to blame this specific website…websites come and go. I do however absolutely blame the creep himself since they are the one who did something wrong. Not the website.

    • JTskulk@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ll do it then, I am victim-blaming. An 11 year old broke the rules and logged onto a website that she shouldn’t be on and then somehow a 30 year old guy forced her to take naked pictures. The problem wasn’t the website, it’s this child that broke the rules and doesn’t know not to do things for strangers on the internet.

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          1 year ago

          Hence why it’s easy to understand that she made this mistake. Her parents might as well sue the ISP for enabling this communication to take place.

      • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        An 11 year old child should be expected to break rules and at times end up where they aren’t supposed to be. 30 year old fucking predators shouldn’t be taking advantage of that.

        This is like shaming a 20 year old for dressing in a gogo skirt, raping her, and then saying “she was asking for it”.

        No. She wasn’t the problem. Your depraved ass was.

        Men are fucking pigs and I don’t trust the lot of you.

        Source: me. A man and a father.

        • Rediphile@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Sure, but shutting down the website is like shutting down the club that the slutty 20 year old dressed up slutty for and went to on the night a creep raped her. Maybe she had a fake ID (if USA at least). And yeah, perhaps the club should be more careful about fake IDs. But the club didn’t rape anyone, the rapist did. And shutting down club A for club B to replace it will do nothing to prevent future rapes.

          • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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            1 year ago

            No offense to the good people in Omegle but let’s be real, that site like many other of these “anonymous chat” sites are rife with people like that dude. If a website can’t better control the traffic then shut it down. A night club has a bouncer and to your point can check and ID and fake or not I highly doubt an 11 year old is getting in.

            Shutting down the site is a small price to pay to protect youth doing what youth are made to do which is test limits.