JuicyCampus.com Gossip Website Targeted
March 24, 2008 by admin
Filed under Moral Decay
The anonymous gossip site JuicyCampus.com is spreading “malignant and malicious falsehoods” about Yale University students on its message board, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal charged Friday.
A lawyer for Yale said Friday the university supports the attorney general. Blumenthal announced an investigation into the Los Angeles-based social-networking operation that could lead to civil charges against Juicycampus.com under the state’s consumer protection law.
He said the site is fostering a wide variety of hate speech and appears to be operating in a manner that breaks its own rules of usage.
“JuicyCampus.com is different from other social-networking sites because of its absolute guarantee of anonymity and its refusal to provide information about people who post hateful, slanderous, abusive and offensive speech,” Blumenthal said. “This Web site is filled with insults, taunts, slander based on race, gender, religion. It is filled with comments that are homophobic and anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic.”
Blumenthal said that Yale officials are supporting his investigation, which is collaborating with New Jersey officials and other universities.
“Essentially what we’re investigating is this Web site’s failure to follow and enforce its own guarantees and promises to the public,” Blumenthal said.
