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Censoring chatroulette

3 pointsby kimfuhalmost 15 years ago
Will censoring chatroulete "fix" it? Is undesirable content the major reason preventing them from really taking off?

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teishoalmost 15 years ago
It's hard to say. It's undesirable content may have played a role in its rise to fame. Definitely bad publicity, but still publicity. And while most would not admit it, it may have attracted female viewers to the site.<p>There was a post in IAMA months ago on Reddit where a chatroulette exhibitionist mentioned that a quarter of the women would watch him for up to 10 minutes, often encouraging him.<p>Sometimes success derives from the freedom that lets undesirable things happen. In the process of stopping those undesirable things, the freedom that brought success may be extinguished.<p>Success in the complicated social network of the internet is complicated, and it is too difficult at least for me to make a solid guess on what will happen.