One night, a friend of mine asked me if I used Chatroulette.  I told him no; I don’t have a webcam.  He said it was pretty cool and that you could meet a lot of interesting people on there, if only you could withstand an assault of naked men doing gross things to themselves.  I’m not particularly interested in having to suffer through that parade of genitals, so I’ve not checked out Chatroulette (I must be the only one yet to use it).  To their credit, Chatroulette is planning on monitoring the service for genitals to protect the innocent eyes of people like me.

While they are planning on adding software to scan the service for unwanted crotch shots, they are already patrolling the digital streets to stop the flashers by studying user patterns.  If you get skipped and reported by three people in the span of 5 minutes, you apparently get the above message and get banned briefly from the service, presumably long enough to clean up your act.  It’s great, because people deserve to be protected from unwanted bits, but it’s also bad because it’s basically spying on someone’s webcam.  I don’t really want the Wild Wild Web to become nothing but panda videos (even though pandas are adorable).

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