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Colleges Struggling With the Digital Bathroom Wall
theodp writes "Back in the day, anonymous character assassination was confined to permanent marker scrawl in bathroom stalls. But now, thanks to sites like the student-run CollegeACB.com (ACB=Anonymous Confession Board), which can get hundreds of thousands of hits on a good day, TIME reports that anonymous slander is going viral on campus. Even the most elite universities — normally the land of the politically correct — have been struggling with the problem of anonymous gossip sites and their very un-PC posts, which an Amherst dean likens to 'the worst of junior high.' If he thinks things are bad now, wait until the kids start getting creative with Google Sidewiki."
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Soulskill has herpes!
Just give them the cane some more until morale improves!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
hmmm juicy campus ran out of money and shut down so why the big push to discuss this now?
You're ignoring the vandalism aspect: Anyone who scribbles on the digital bathroom wall deserves a digital swirly!
Jerry Springer for the interwebs
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"
Albert Einstein
That would be an e-swirly.
Once Apple finds a way to make the e-swirly look geek sheik, or whatever, they will call it the iSwirly and rake in the profits!
Haha, and sorry nothing citeable here because I'm going to post anonymously for this but I have a black African friend who punched an American who referred to him as "African American" [in UK btw]. What a day that was, sigh..
Hey, I'm an oversensitive pussy, and I find your post extremely offensive and wrong.
If moderation could change anything, it would be illegal.
You spend time watching 14 year old girls, on facebook?
and then Halo 2 came out and showed how much worse it is when everyone has voice chat.
I wish to remain anomalous
When I read the title, I envisioned an actual whiteboard on the wall of a bathroom stall that allowed people to write on it. I figured the problems were people using real sharpies on it.
Sig: I stole this sig.
When you get white Americans calling European nationals who happen to be black 'African Americans' it's gone too far.
Exemplified by the brilliant satire of Sacha Baron Cohen, in Brüno:
Brüno: There's a lot of African Americans in Africa!
African-American Lady: No! There's a lot of Africans in Africa!
Brüno: That's racist!
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
Did anyone else read the title and think someone put a big electronic wall in the bathroom that can be written on like a tablet pc?