JuicyCampus.com subpoenaed for not monitoring offensive content
It seems that New Jersey is joining the fight against gossip websites that target students. The AP reports–in a particularly skewed article–that prosecutors have subpoenaed JuicyCampus.com because of concerns related to offensive content. In what amounts to a disingenuous (or ingenious depending on your outlook) move, NJ prosecutors are actually targeting Juicycampus.com under the state’s Consumer Fraud Act because the website “suggests that it doesn’t allow offensive material but provid[es] no enforcement of that rule — and no way for users to report or dispute the material”.
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skass
March 21, 2008 @ 11:10 am
That’s actually not all that uncommon. Because of the protection offered by the Communications Decency Act, state attorneys general frequently turn to less obvious causes of action - like consumer fraud - in such situations. In the New York Attorney General’s Office, for example, most of the cases involving questionable online practices are handled by the Internet Bureau, which initially developed as a subset of the consumer fraud division.