Words: The New Sticks and Stones

Juicy Campus is, as the name implies, a web forum for students to anonymously post campus gossip. Not surprisingly, it has quickly become the go to place for comprehensive lists of purported sluts and homosexuals.

The site administrators use a blog to flaunt the fact their site is ruining schools and pompously cite a federal law that immunizes Web hosts from liability for the comments of their users.

I took torts, I sort of know about libel, and I'm interested to see how it plays out. Pepperdine has already blocked the site from the school's network and a similar case against AutoAdmit is already in the pipeline.

Legal Eagles and free speech enthusiasts, I'm interested in your thoughts.

[Picture of the site founder, former President of Sig Ep, courtesy of this article from the Duke Chronicle.]