New Jersey Sours on JuicyCampus

As a proud resident of the State of New Jersey, we are thrilled to see state action being taken against a vicious gossip website called JuicyCampus:

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey prosecutors have subpoenaed records of JuicyCampus a Web site that publishes anonymous, often malicious gossip about college students.

Language on the site ranges from catty to hateful and offensive. One thread, for example, on the "most overrated Princeton student" quickly dissolves into name-calling, homophobia and anti-Semitism.

JuicyCampus may be violating the state's Consumer Fraud Act by suggesting that it doesn't allow offensive material but providing no enforcement of that rule — and no way for users to report or dispute the material, New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram said Tuesday.

New Jersey is standing up for the good people who shun anonymity on the web.

We love it New Jersey doesn't believe in allowing unenforced and unmitigated chaos and hate to the internet.

When sites like JuicyCampus are allowed to thrive without social repercussion, or the force of human law coming down on them like a corrective cudgel, we are all made worse in their shadow -- because instead of enlightening the world with strength and insight, JuicyCampus tumbles us all down the wishing well and into the drink for drowning.