juicycampus

I left class really confused about my feelings towards Juicycampus.com as well as some other things that were mentioned during our discussion. I had seen the website before and was kind of amused by it, I glanced at it and didn't really think anything of it (which I think is how others should view it)but after people who I knew were being named (full names) I got incredibly wary of it. Why is directed and specific slander ethical? Why isn't HWS doing anything about it?We had discussed in class how HWS was drawing the line of comments that directly addressed physical violence. This may be true, but having over heard people talk about all the negative ramifications of this site, some said the individuals targeted are suing the site as well as the school for allowing this site to still exist within the HWS community.

Today's class discussion was interesting to me and one that I wanted to soak in rather than participate in. It is hard to debate something like this which has such moral and ethical ties attached to it - very similar to our conversation at the beginning of the year concerning data mining-everyone is going to view things in a different light. For instance, Professor Dean as well as some others argued that you are exposing yourself to the site, therefore you shouldn't let the posts affect you. However, this site has had extensive ramifications already, how far are we going to let this bullying go?Are we going to wait until someone commits suicide just because we want another form of mind numbing entertainment?

It is rather dramatic to say that peoples lives change drastically because of the posts on Juicycampus,yet how can one not internalize those negative feelings?What do others think?

-Anna