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by kelseyfrog
956 days ago
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Going to anywhere is voluntary and we still have public indecency laws. Doing it on the internet doesn't have an essential difference. Besides, the expectation is that members will follow the rules and the Omegle Community Guidelines clearly state > Nudity, pornography and sexually explicit conduct and content are prohibited This is opposed to a strip club where there is an expectation of nudity. It's like going to a grocery store. "Well that's the grocery store where everyone jacks off," really isn't a convincing argument. |
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It's more nuanced than that. Omegle was designed with the explicit purpose of not having any standards around the interaction between strangers.
That was THE point.
When you're done with the interaction for any reason, you click next or you exit the website.
It's a private website, it's not a physical space you're trapped in, and its primary purpose was to have many varied interactions with people, distasteful or not.
Any expectation around a pristine interaction is your fault, not the site operators'. The opposite is true when you, as another commenter alluded to, going to a coffee shop.
Applying puritanical customs is completely contrary to what the internet was built for and how it should function. This is one single corner of the internet, not a public space advertised as a standard, pristine social environment.
The former should absolutely be allowed to exist.