Friday, February 15, 2008
Campus Slander
The article I choose to read and post about is titled "Gossip and Slander at a Campus Near You." The article consists of a website located on college campus's called Juicy Campus.com. This website allows college students to post confidential "shout outs, accusations, open threats, personal attacks, and even death threats" that never allow the sites reader's to know who has posted and their e-mail addresses become untraceable. Many college students have voted to ban the cite from their campus's, although the cite does still exist. There is nothing that can legally be done to remove this site, because it's protected by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. In my opinion, this seems to be a harmful site to college students. I feel that having a site like this around is not condusive to learning and may even become harmful if any acts are followed through with. Don't get me wrong I do personally believe in the freedom of speech, but I feel that a site such as this is beyond speaking freely and has no buisness being on a college campus.
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it seems like a bad idea for students. Yes, you may get mad at a professor for a grade you didn't think you deserved but instead of going to blog about it or just rant to anyone who will listen to you, going to the professor to discuss why you got the grade would be better. For people who just post stupid stuff like who they got with, it's pointless, no one really cares.
A site like this just gives the people who want to whine all the time a new place to do it. Instead of whining, they might want to actually do something about it.
The site should be taken down if at all possible, though it will be hard to do so if others just keep popping up.I agree that the best colleges could do is ban the site for those who use their colleges internet services.
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