Popular video chat service Omegle shuts down
He compared shuttering the site to closing off Central Park because crimes are sometimes committed there. But in the end, he said, the stress and expense of keeping the site online were overwhelming. “As much as I wish circumstances were different, the stress and expense of this fight — coupled with the existing stress and expense of operating Omegle, and fighting its misuse — are simply too much,” he said. Launched in 2009, the free service randomly paired users to...