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by whoknowsidont 956 days ago
>Doing it on the internet doesn't have an essential difference.

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.

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Absent some really abnormal situation, no one is physically trapped in a coffee shop either. Respectfully it seems like you have a conclusion or opinion and are looking to ignore some pretty basic facts to advocate for it rather than looking at the facts and forming a conclusion.
I find it hard to believe that Omegle has no standards and simultaneously has a list of standards in the Omegle Community Guidelines[1]. One of these things is false.

Can you exposit on social norms, their validity, and your methods of social reasoning? There seems to be a difference in underlying assumptions between us that is influencing how we think about this.

1. https://front3.omegle.com/static/guidelines.html

real, actual predators like places like that right?