So there’s a certain shithole of a website that people are trying to ban.
Now, I’m very much an opponent of banning websites. The sort of opponent that gets angry at phrases like
Still, I keep hearing more and more cases of people being absolutely devastated by the people writing gossip on the site. There have been, I bet, many secret trips to the Dean’s office, psychologists, or health center.
It’s important that the problem is not the technology, but the vicious knot of people who use anonymity as a sword instead of a shield. Still what are we going to do?
Seriously. I’m against banning websites, but the status quo is horrible. What can be done?
January 7th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Perhaps one thing to do is to not give it publicity by removing this blog post…just saying…
January 7th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
We tried that – didn’t work.
January 9th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Hold rallies on campus, not to ban it but rather to demand better from our fellow Brandesians.
That, and spam it like there’s no tomorrow.