The New Jersey Attorney General is going after JuciyCampus for violating the state’s Consumer Fraud Act. Although the site claims it doesn't allow offensive material, there is no way for users to report or dispute slanderous comments. Prosecutors have already subpoenaed the website’s records. If they get their way, JuicyCampus will have to give up the goods (i.e. the IP addresses). 

It’s about time. 

I’ve been following this Internet train wreck of evil, maliciousness for a while, wondering when all the “juice” would explode in creator Matt Ivester’s face. At first I couldn’t decide who was to blame: the pathetic, disgusting, degrading individuals who anonymously attack their peers through the site’s message boards, or the man who started it all by encouraging students to post of his nasty bathroom web wall. 

Last week things came to a head when the NY Times followed up on the Yale sophomore who was exposed on Juicy for dabbling in a gay 4-some. The kid’s life has been ruined, and in a childish, idiot move Ivester refused to respond to the Times’ request for an interview. 

Instead, he proudly declared on his blog, “hate isn’t juicy.” 

Really, Matt? 
Try telling that to the 21-year-old Baylor junior who was decreed “Biggest Slut on Campus.” I’m sure that comment will make her feel 100% better. 

While I can’t understand why anyone would forgo the opportunity to engage in cultural dialogue with one of the world’s biggest papers, what gets me even more is no one can be held responsible for JC’s damages.  And Ivester, a Duke alum, appears to have little interest in owning up to the content on his creation. 

Defamed students have limited legal options because, as Reputation Defender points out, similar to vicious comments posted in AOL chat rooms “Juicy Campus is fully, absolutely immune, no matter what it runs on its site from users.”

Ivester’s Sigma Phi brothers (who initially provided feedback and contributions to the site) are now scrambling to distance themselves from their former house president because “the site gives frat boys a bad name.”

Surprise, surprise. 

Truth?  I’m an optimist at heart.  I’d like to believe Ivester isn’t the devil incarnate.  Maybe he's just a confused young guy who had no idea what kind of beast he was feeding.

And maybe the people posting on Juicy are cowardly, lunatic ****s who weren’t raised properly enough to know nominating a student for the award of “Top College ****” simply isn’t appropriate.

Wake up, people. 
Juicy Campus is not “enabling online anonymous free speech on college campuses.” It’s destroying lives.  Anyone visiting the site – either to post or read comments – is playing a role in hate. 

If nothing less, gosh, ya’ll are really giving the Greek system a bad, bad name. 


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