International Law

Mashable discusses Juicy Campus:

Is this cyber-bullying at its finest?  JuicyCampus is an online network that lets students at various college campuses in the US say whatever they want, anonymously of course. Give a bunch of just-out-of-high-school kids an opportunity like this, and they?ll run with it. You can get all sorts of quips, stories, rumors, and lies that could easily be spread across campus and more than call somebody out.

While JuicyCampus doesn?t actually allow search engines to index its content, there is the concern that such a site could be damning to pretty much anybody. As CenterNetworks has pointed out earlier today, JuicyCampus has been experiencing an on again, off again relationship with its server. Good thing, because apparently the site had become such an addiction that its downtime made it all the more popular. While no details have emerged regarding the down status of the site, it looks like the whole ?larger in death than in life? effect has already begun to take effect for JuicyCampus, even if the site?s not really dead.

As Mark has noted on various occasions in the recent weeks, and more notably last Friday in his weekly Social Media Crime Blotter article, anti-cyberbullying is a movement that?s quickly gaining steam. Maybe that?s the real reason JuciyCampus is down? I hate to say it, but gossip is pretty much everywhere. its a very integral part of our lives as social beings, and there are sites that do it well, and others that don?t.

Take BoredAt, for example. Here?s a site with a very similar concept, but far more substantiation for its potential for spreading gossip. Then there?s Camfess, which is a site where users can anonymously share secrets. These sites are far less likely to be caught up in any legal tape when it comes to the content on their sites, or defamation of character. It?s like People Magazine versus The Inquirer. That?s not to say that JuicyCampus is down because of any legal issues, and I may be totally spreading a rumor here, but? it?s all in jest, right?

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