BBC: The woman who successfully sued the website that matched her with a paedophile explains how she forced the site to close down. ‘Alice’, or A.M. as she was known in court says she feels "vindic…::“Alice” speaks exclusively to the BBC after her successful lawsuit against Omegle forced it offline.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You forget that children can be easily manipulated as their brains are literally not capable of proper judgement in most situations

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      1 year ago

      Mm, I guess that’s why the park needs to be shut/we can never let children go there unattended.

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          1 year ago

          You haven’t said why it matters it was privately run.

          It matters that it had private rooms, but there tend to be private areas in public spaces like parks too. The analogy actually works much better if the kid’s computer is in a public place and they don’t have unrestricted access to the internet through a phone - obviously in either case it’s harder to abuse someone in secret if you have to take the initial risk of meeting somewhere you could be spotted, and only then move it private.

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            1 year ago

            You’re really desperate to divert from the fact that the owner knew what was going on and did basically nothing to stop it. And it made money.

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              1 year ago

              He did take action to stop it - he aided in multiple prosecutions. What he didn’t do was turn the site into something completely different, with mandatory registration.

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                1 year ago

                Meanwhile, in reality:

                In the last two years, the site has been mentioned in more than 50 cases against paedophiles, and calls from child protection charities like the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and the United Nations were ignored.

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                  1 year ago

                  How does that contradict what I said, or else what point are you trying to make?

                  Even though you’re quite sure the site owner needed to do more to stop paedophiles, you haven’t said what. Is what you think he should have done to have sacrificed anonymity?

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                    1 year ago

                    I pasted the content of the article, which is the exact opposite of your claim. So… Care to back up your claim, or are you pulling it out of thin air?