Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

>“Omegle for 12 years old” prompted Bing to suggest searching for “Kids On Omegle Showing”,

Results called "kids on omegle showing" suggests that the kids were being prompted by predators to produce child pornography on social networks. There has got to be some rule about letting kids access these social networking platforms. Who could possibly think it's a good idea to let a child post their photos videos and profile information online and leave that open to the public for any predator who wants to reach out to them. And what's worse these kids are probably using these things unsupervised.

I wonder how a search company could hope to really effectively combat this content considering it's probably constantly being produced and circulated on a daily basis. Although one should expect them to keep track of and closely monitor keyword phrases routinely associated with child porn.




Omegle is more of a chat room than a social network. Users can video chat with random strangers. What I found odd is that Omegle video chat is moderated, probably to curb unwanted sexual content, but there are also two other video chat categories: adult, which allows sexual content, and unmoderated, which sounds like it has no systems in place to remove unwanted content like child pornography. It seems absurd to me to have an unmoderated category on top of an adult category - what legal things would you need an unmoderated video chat with strangers for?

The results for "kids on Omegle showing" are most likely other users who have captured screenshots or recordings of the illegal video streams on Omegle.


At least in Canada, that sort of predatory behaviour towards children is criminal.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-172.1-...




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: