When you invite the public in, it's public. Maybe not quite the same way as a city park, but it's not wholly private either. That's both obvious in a common-sense way, and part of the law. It's just not really been applied to the Internet yet.
>Independent, peer to peer social media, for example, “dark web”, or just plain old WWW / Gopher /forums discovered without the private search platforms.
Those are still private platforms. With enough pressure you can get an ISP to cancel someones service, or get a domain service/hosting provider to cancel them, etc, etc.
"When you set your SmugMug gallery to 'private', this is exactly what you're doing - making the gallery and photos difficult, but not impossible, to find."
A library is in public view.
Omegle was in private, away from public view.
No one needs to keep anyone off Omegle now, it is gone.
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