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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 · 3 years ago

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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Omegle was originally chat only. Chat Roulette was the original video chat service. Omegle shut down and restarted as a copy of Chat Roulette.

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