What was originally heralded as another huge social-networking hit like MySpace, Facebook, or Twitter, Chatroulette quickly went down the toilet, sometimes literally. According to the website's creator - Russian teenager, Andrey Ternovskiy - Chatroulette is meant to allow people from all over the world to jump the gaps of both geographical and social demographics to bring the world closer together. When going to the site, you are quickly and randomly given a stranger to video chat with for as long as you're inkling. Don't wanna talk to the person, you can skip them and the website will pick someone new for you to talk to. From a personal, perspective, it was quite a lot of fun. But soon, perverts and pedophiles across the globe quickly found the site and took it to their exhibitionist advantage. And in seemingly no time at all, analysts had determined that Chatroulette users would be given a naked stranger more than 10% of the time they skipped to a new person. The problem arouse when parents caught on and were appalled that there was such vulgarity on the website. Chatroulette does not ask for any sort of age verification, making it all to possible for these strangers to flash their goodies to minors - and lots of them. However, on the home page of the site, there is clearly a warning stating:
"Warning: Broadcasting inappropriate content to minors is a violation of both US and UN law. We are actively cooperating with law enforcement agencies."Ternovskiy has taken the proper precautions in attempting to have his site once again be flasher-free and is working with the authorities to clean up the site by discovering user's IP addresses and enforcing the law upon them.
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