Ok, college types, have you heard of this? There's a new-ish website out there (slowly coming up on its first anniversary) targeting the higher-ed crowd with its low-brow content. It's gossip, y'all.
Claiming it aims only to enable "anonymous free speech on college campuses," JuicyCampus.com is basically a clearinghouse of mostly crass comments about university students and professors alike. It's wildly popular, natch, but also becoming controversial. Students at some schools, Malibu's Pepperdine among them, have even implored the site be banned from campus internet servers, so hurtful can the content be.
Apparently you can post anonymously, but are encouraged to name names when you're ranting about that girl in the dorm next door or that prickly professor you're not so fond of.
What do you think? Is it free speech gone too far, or is it just harmless venting?
Read the San Francisco Chronicle's recent piece then check out the site for yourself.
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