Rupert Murdoch wants YOU!
p2pnet.net News:- Opportunities to you to be able to surf safely without being mobbed by hoards of venal advertisers have just diminished even further.
Having finally clued into the fact that, thanks to the Net, they`ve lost control of their `consumer` bases, the corporate cartels are now racing flat out in their attempts to regain control of what you see, hear and do, and where you spend your money, mining your personal data as they go.
As part of this, Rupert Murdoch`s giant multimedia conglomerate News Corp says it`s buying Intermix Media for $580 million in cash and in a separate transaction, has exercised its option to acquire the 47% of MySpace.com that it doesn`t own already.
The company describes MySpace.com as, the leading lifestyle portal for networking online.
Leading lifestyle portal? If ole Rupert says so, it must be true.
MySpace.com and Intermix’s more than 30 sites will become part of News Corporation’s newly formed Fox Interactive Media unit, it says, going on:
“The Intermix network of sites is the largest multi-category online entertainment network with more than 27 million unique monthly users. Intermix’s group of entertainment, humor, gaming and social networking sites has become the leading network for shareable digital entertainment such as pictures, music and video.
MySpace.com has created a connected community where users put their lives online and as a result (wait for it) is a favorite with online advertisers.
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News Corp – News Corporation to Acquire Intermix Media, Inc, July 18, 2005
July 18th, 2005 at 8:46 pm
Everyone with an IQ greater than their shoe size knows fox is a propaganda arm for the far right in the USA.
Intruding upon the domain of progressives by entering the internet with “interactive” sites will be disasterous for their goal of severe rightward cant, rabid lies, and lack of fact checking.
I personally think they’ll ban anyone who posts even moderately intelligent commentary to their stories… or who brings a progressive or even a centerist view to their sites.
July 18th, 2005 at 9:10 pm
ha ha ha ha hah!!!!
i don’t want HIM!
July 18th, 2005 at 10:48 pm
“…users âput their lives onlineâ…”
I think the word “the” was left out of that little quote thingy…
July 19th, 2005 at 3:09 am
âthe put their lives onlineâ
âput their lives online theâ
âput the their lives onlineâ
âput their the lives onlineâ
âput their lives the onlineâ
makes no sense. the original sentence is correct.
July 19th, 2005 at 3:40 am
put their lives on the line?
July 19th, 2005 at 3:50 am
I don’t see how this concerns me. I don’t recognise either of the companies involved in this and i don’t visit “lifestyle portals”.
As for online advertisers, i’ve already detailed how i ensure that i never see online ads. I’d also really appreciate it if the entire advertising industry, online or offline, would just shut up and go away. Now.
July 19th, 2005 at 5:19 am
All the businesses want in the pest industry for one reason or another. Yet strangely, the user of the internet for the most part resents these obtrusive practices. In spite of the resentment, the businesses seem bound and determined to do it anyway.
Folks I gotta tell you, I LOVE linux! It is common for me to deny cookies by choice, have it report to the spyware I am using a browser I don’t have and therefore files aren’t going to be found for that browser to attach to. I have a custom file that rejects ads and can be modified very simular to a host file. Only it isn’t as subject to being hijacked as a host file is.
Ya’ll do what you want. I for now found my answer to the problems. Like the poster above, Murdoch may want me; I don’t want him!