The Future of JuicyCampus

The recent focus on the web-based college campus trash-talking site, JuicyCampus, is not surprising to me at all. This is because I had heard about it from my girlfriend, whose roommate had been "featured" not-so adoringly by an anonymous poster whom proceeded to tear the girl apart. The AP article Professor Katsh sent to us mentioned that Pepperdyne University wanted to ban JuicyCampus from its network. This is absolutely silly in my opinion. Trash talk has been present in various forms for as long as humans could communicate. I'm only surprised it took this long for a web-based medium to pop up and fill the passive aggressive needs of America's college students. I can imagine that JuicyCampus is making a great deal of money based on their advertising based revenue model. So, should JuicyCampus be forced to revise itself and/or be held accountable for the messages found on the website? In short, no, I don't think so. Why can't people just exercise self-restraint and simply not look at the website if they find the comments offensive? Censoring, or forcing the site to change its ways is frivolous, as there will no doubt be a (or multiple) replacement site which pops in to fill the void. Furthermore, if JuicyCampus doesn't log the IP's of the posters (as it claims), then there truly cannot be any legal recourse for those who claim they've been slandered and want to find out who's responsible. The bottom line: JuicyCampus, or any equivalent, is here to stay.