Juicy Terms and Conditions

A note about our Terms and Conditions...

Our Terms and Conditions require users to agree not to post anything that is defamatory, libelous, etc.

It is not unusual for a user to write to us and demand that we remove a particular post because, in that user's opinion, it violates our Terms and Conditions. Most often, the basis for the demand is that the user believes the post is defamatory.

Juicy Campus cannot determine whether any given post is defamatory. We cannot subpoena witnesses, take sworn testimony, or weigh witness credibility. Only courts can do those things. A user's claim that a post is defamatory is of no more legal significance than my grandmother's opinion that "The Joy of Sex" is obscene. It's just an opinion.

The point of our terms and conditions is that the author of the post agrees that what he or she is posting is not defamatory. This may be because it is true, or because is a statement of pure opinion, or because it is a post about a football game rather than a person. Whatever the case, the fact that our terms and conditions require users to agree that they will not post anything defamatory obviously does not obligate us to investigate the factual basis of every post; that would be impossible. As such, we have no knowledge of the factual basis of any given post, and no way of forming an opinion regarding whether the posts are, in fact, defamatory.

The bottom line is that if a court of competent jurisdiction holds that the author of a post on juicy campus is liable for defamation as a result of that post, we will remove that post from the site. But our Terms and Conditions do not require us to delete a post simply because the subject of the post tells us that it's defamatory.