![]() ![]() Other UC campuses are those in Los Angeles, Irvine, San Diego and Santa Barbara. ![]() Juicy Campus decides which campuses to include on its site and so far UC Berkeley is the only Northern California school listed among the 61 colleges. "If we just started taking down posts by request we would be limiting the free speech of our users, and that doesn't seem right." "We really aren't in the position to judge the validity of any given post," Ivester said. Ivester said in an e-mail to The Chronicle that his site allows students to discuss topics that most interest them. The site's owners said on a Juicy Campus blog that it would be too arduous to screen the tens of thousands of postings and that a standard for editing would be difficult to determine. At issue is whether the site has failed to enforce its own "terms and conditions" that prohibit abusive and obscene language, as well as the invasion of privacy. The company is now under investigation by the New Jersey attorney general's office, which has subpoenaed records it believes will show Juicy Campus is violating state laws. But I believe the benefits of protecting speech on the Internet and the benefit for the companies that it provides is important." ![]() "It is another example where protecting speech does create uncomfortable situations for people. As long as they are just hosting other people's comments, they are legally protected," Gelman said. That's because laws are in place to protect Web sites from being legally responsible for the comments of users. Legally, that's not surprising, said Lauren Gelman, executive director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Students who have attempted to get comments or names removed from it have been unsuccessful, critics of the site claim. "Some of it is very offensive to people in our community and we don't know where it is coming from because it is anonymous," she said. She sent out an e-mail to all campus sorority leaders urging them to dissuade members from using the site. It is just low blows," said Christina Starzak, president of the UC Berkeley Panhellenic Council. Always Juicy."Ĭurrently, anyone can go on the site's bulletin board anonymously and say anything, no matter how profane or grossly libelous, about someone else, listing names and other identifying information.Īnd once someone is targeted, there's virtually nothing they can do about it It's the creation of Duke University graduate Matt Ivester, who gave it the motto "Always Anonymous. Started in August, has spread rapidly across the country to 61 campuses, from Yale to five University of California campuses. The site is getting heavy traffic, with some postings getting hundreds of views within minutes and thousands within a day or so. Then he provided not only her name, but a link to a Facebook page he believed was hers. Responses, also anonymous, ranged from "whore" to "hooked up with half of every frat."Īnother poster described in stark sexual detail the backseat performance of a Cal student, including what color panties she was wearing. For example, one recent anonymous post listed a female Berkeley student by name and asked for comments. ![]()
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