Omegle.com LLC is seeking a pre-trial win in a case alleging the anonymous video-chatting website allowed a sex predator in Canada to abuse a minor he met on the platform.
The company filed a motion for summary judgment in the US District Court for the District of Oregon on Thursday arguing both that it didn’t knowingly assist Scott Fordyce in committing the abuse and that parts of the lawsuit are barred by a statute of limitations.
The lawsuit filed in 2021 claimed Omegle is a defectively designed product that failed to restrict access to children or ban known predatory users. ...
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