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Won’t these pedophiles just move to Roblox or start trading kids’ phone numbers or something? Cut off one head and three more emerge. Can’t the answer to people breaking the laws be law enforcement?


They will.

... and Roblox has a financial vested interest in finding them, outing them to authorities, and keeping them off the site, so it'll be worth it to them to do so and to keep the site humming.

Omegle's owner decided to shut it down because it wasn't worth it to them to do that work. That's all. Price not worth paying.


No, they were finding them, outing them and reporting them. As he says in the post. There were doing that work.

They're being sued by a victim for not preventing the victim from being manipulated by an abuser. The fact that the abuser was caught and convicted with Omegle's help is apparently irrelevant.

It's hard to see how Omegle could have done this differently; no crime occurred until the victim was abused, and once the abuse happened any subsequent action is irrelevant because the victim was still abused.

Roblox will have more ability to hire lawyers to win the victim's court case. That's the only difference.


Fending off legal challenges is also part of the work.

If it's not worth it to him it's not worth it. I too remember the feeling of "this startup is going to kill me and I'm only 30."


> Won’t these pedophiles just move to Roblox

Many there already, unfortunate to report.




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