February 27, 2009
JuicyCampus: Gone, and Best Forgotten
Two years ago, a former student of mine was raped. That should have been awful enough. But a few months later, my student discovered that her personal horror was being openly discussed — or, more accurately, mocked — on the gossip Web site JuicyCampus, where some of her classmates told her, and anyone else who happened to read the site, that she had "deserved" it.
On February 5, JuicyCampus shut down its operations, citing a lack of advertising revenue. And no
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