The website JuicyCampus is an online posting board where anonymous visitors can post, well, "juicy" stories about other students. While the poster can remain anonymous, even with the privacy statement of JuicyCampus.com stating that they can find tools online to cloak their IP address, the postees mentioned in posts are not; some students are finding their names associated with gossip that's not even true. The U.S. government protects the website through freedom of speech clauses, but the backlash says that even this free speech is too poisonous and teetering on the edge of libel and slander. So, what do you think?
Monday, February 18, 2008
Too Juicy for You
College Web site posts sex gossip, hate, rumor
The website JuicyCampus is an online posting board where anonymous visitors can post, well, "juicy" stories about other students. While the poster can remain anonymous, even with the privacy statement of JuicyCampus.com stating that they can find tools online to cloak their IP address, the postees mentioned in posts are not; some students are finding their names associated with gossip that's not even true. The U.S. government protects the website through freedom of speech clauses, but the backlash says that even this free speech is too poisonous and teetering on the edge of libel and slander. So, what do you think?
The website JuicyCampus is an online posting board where anonymous visitors can post, well, "juicy" stories about other students. While the poster can remain anonymous, even with the privacy statement of JuicyCampus.com stating that they can find tools online to cloak their IP address, the postees mentioned in posts are not; some students are finding their names associated with gossip that's not even true. The U.S. government protects the website through freedom of speech clauses, but the backlash says that even this free speech is too poisonous and teetering on the edge of libel and slander. So, what do you think?
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