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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

TechnologyEnglish • 8 months 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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He somehow got her to get started and then threatened her, saying that she was now complicit in making illegal porn and would get in trouble.

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