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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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.

Dude, the victim is literally a child.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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