Just because someone got struck by lightning while playing golf, doesn’t make golf dangerous to play.
No one is ‘accidentally’ using Omeagle, anymore than they would ‘accidentally’ go golfing.
An internet connection is a lot more ubiquitous than a golf membership.
Of the people that went to Omeagle, the odds of this kind of thing happening are clearly astronomically low - it’s been there for over a decade, internationally known, and my guess is only a handful of these types of things have likely happened.
Old school AOL chat rooms were clearly more dangerous. And were consistently implicated in all sorts of nefarious child trafficking operations.
I'm not going to say if the boons are worth the burden, but in Leif's case it was now. And he was calling the shots at the end of the day.
> Whatever the reason, people have become faster to attack, and slower to recognize each other’s shared humanity. One aspect of this has been a constant barrage of attacks on communication services, Omegle included, based on the behavior of a malicious subset of users.
To me this sounds like the problem isn't the malicious users, so much as people using the malicious users as an argument to shut down Omegle.
You can moderate people showing their dicks, you can't moderate people suing you because you didn't do enough to stop little 16 year old Timmy seeing a dick.