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QUESTION FROM MIKE: Do you think there will evolve a greater level of censorship as investors participate? It’ll be interesting to watch how this little experiment in the limits of freedom will develop. This probably wouldn’t satisfy venture capitalists looking for something they can later take to the bank. Andrey seems to be happy just having one tiny advertising line at the bottom of the page that brings in enough money to cover expenses (servers, programmers, etc.) and leave room and profit at the end of the month. The problem, of course, is that this draws in a lot of exhibitionists, and that Andrey has to eat and pay for his new Palo Alto apartment.

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I talked a lot about this with his dad, Vladimir, who fervently insisted that the site remain as wild and free as possible. JULIA IOFFE: First of all, hello to Thessaly, TNY’s web wunderkind! This is a good question and something Andrey seems to be grappling with. QUESTION FROM MICHAEL: What was Russian media reaction on your article and especially on Andrey’s decision to stay in America? As for face-to-face meetings, I think Andrey is working on a feature that will let people re-find each other if they both agree. In Russia, a country where things are random, chaotic, and often unpredictable, people tend to gravitate toward highly ordered social networks, like VKontakte, the Russian analog of Facebook. And the question is, why? My hypothesis is that these are highly ordered societies, each in their own way, and people living in them, especially young men-the excitable electron in any society-crave a bit of the entropy that Chatroulette brings them. (It used to be 18-24.) The other telling phenomenon is that most of these users are from the United States, France, Britain, and China. The spread has shifted a bit since Chatroulette first made a splash-the users have gotten a bit older-but they are still mostly male, and between the ages of 25-34. JULIA IOFFE: So this is a really interesting question, I think. I guess this blows that thought to pieces. It is often said that on the internet nobody knows you’re a dog. I’m also curious about how many Chatroulette “conversations” lead to face-to-face meetings (not many, I assume). I wonder what the age distribution is for people using Chatroulette? Also, is it different for men and women? 2. So if there’s nowhere for you to take those skills, one often turns to hacking. As I said in my story, oil, gas, mineral extraction, etc.-not start-ups-fund nearly two-thirds of the Russian federal budget. The hi-tech sector, though booming, is still relatively small. The other part of the answer is that there are still relatively few opportunities for kids with programming skills in Russia. A notable example was when a major hacker was traced to the Philippines and had to be let go because hacking was not a crime in the Philippines. Moreover, it’s hard to get any international agreement on what constitutes a crime, or a punishment. Hacking is a highly lucrative, fast-evolving business-at least for those that do it for money, and it doesn’t seem that Andrey was-and governments and legal systems tend to move slowly. The first, more global answer is that this is a legal area that has yet to catch up to the technology. How come he’s not in jail? Why isn’t hacking punished the way fraud or embezzlement are in the nonvirtual world? Unless I misunderstood your piece, he broke into private email accounts, stole material from his school’s computer system for the purpose of cheating, and brought down commercial sites for the fun of it, probably causing business owners significant losses. Here’s my question: Andrey Ternovskiy may be an innovator, but he started out as a hacker.

QUESTION FROM JOAN WARNER: Thank you for the terrific story particularly your analysis of what makes Chatroulette so compelling. Then as reality hit-meetings, the need to work and improve the site, the loneliness of turning 18 without your family-he cooled to it and told me that America is just like everywhere else-boring. At first, and especially after he got to San Francisco, he seemed to swoon a bit. It was also especially interesting to me to hear how he was adjusting to America given his high hopes for the place.

JULIA IOFFE: Yes, I’ve tried to stay in touch with Andrey, partially because it’s hard to just let go of an interesting person you get to know so well by reporting a story.

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