Section 230 Isn't Why Omegle Has Awful Content, And Getting Rid Of 230 Won't Change That
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200807/08085845071/section-230-isnt-why-omegle-has-awful-content-getting-rid-230-wont-change-that.shtml
Last year, I co-authored an article with my law school advisor, Prof. Eric Goldman, titled “Why Can’t Internet Companies Stop Awful Content?” In our article, we concluded that the Internet is just a mirror of our society. Unsurprisingly, anti-social behavior exists online just as it does offline. Perhaps though, the mirror analogy doesn’t go far enough. Rather, the Internet is more like a magnifying glass, constantly refocusing our attention on all the horrible aspects of the human condition.
Omegle, the talk-to-random-strangers precursor to Chatroulette, might be that magnifying glass, intensifying our urge to do something about awful content.