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Colleges Struggling With the Digital Bathroom Wall

Posted by Soulskill on from the for-a-good-time-use-google-stall-search dept.

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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  1. Anonymous coward posted by hyperion2010 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Welcome to the internet, please enjoy your stay or GTFO promptly.

  2. Herpes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Soulskill has herpes!

  3. Re:So, it's... by smitty777 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jerry Springer for the interwebs

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    "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"
    Albert Einstein
  4. Re:PC, huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am very interested in seeing an example of an American calling a European national 'African American.' I am not doubting you or anything, I'd just like an example to show others.

    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..

  5. Re:PC, huh? by Bluesman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, I'm an oversensitive pussy, and I find your post extremely offensive and wrong.

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    If moderation could change anything, it would be illegal.
  6. Re:futile struggle by Sheen · · Score: 5, Funny

    You spend time watching 14 year old girls, on facebook?

  7. Re:PC, huh? by Arthur+Grumbine · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

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    Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.