MySpace postings censored
p2p news / p2pnet: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is censoring MySpace postings and blocking access to rival sites.
So say users, quoted in Britain’s The Independent.
"The 38 million subscribers to MySpace, which News Corp bought for $629m (£355m) last July, discovered that when they wrote to each other about rival video-swapping site YouTube, the words were automatically deleted, and attempts to download video images from YouTube led to blank screens," says the story, going on:
"This is soooo like Fox and News Corp to try and secretly seal our mouths with duct tape," wrote ‘Alex’ to Blog Herald.
"The protests gathered pace, and when 600 MySpace customers complained and a campaign began to boycott the site and relocate to rival sites such as Friendster, Linkedin, revver.com and Facebook.com, News Corp relented and restored the links."
Murdoch behaved exactly according to form and the forum featuring the complaints was hastily taken down, an online notice saying the problem was the result of a, "simple misunderstanding," says The Independent, adding:
"A spokesman for MySpace said it would not explain how the blocking of YouTube came about, nor how it was resolved, nor whether in future it would continue to block links to rival websites or censor messages between MySpace customers."
Also See:
The Independent – Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch, January 10, 2006
January 10th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
And that’s the way it’ll always be : )
Cheers!
January 11th, 2006 at 2:22 am
I noticed one day on statistics for my site that I was getting lots of references from Myspace. It turns out Myspace is linking images from my website as backgrounds on their site and won’t answer me when I email them about it.
January 11th, 2006 at 2:24 am
Communityx.net is way better then myspace. I got tired of myspace deleting my emails! I know they do it because I’ll get an email saying you have a message from someone I click the link and the message is just gone. Also they must go through your whole account and delete stuf they don’t like. I have friends that have had their account deleted for no reason what so ever! I finally found comx and they just over all are easier to deal with in my opinion. What they have free web pages, more pics, and a pic section that allows 100’s of your personal pics to be posted. It’s not sensored and also has some really cool stuff on there. Comx rules! Myspace are fools, they are sold out losers preying on teenagers for their marketing data.
January 11th, 2006 at 5:24 am
And you can’t just rename the pics and update their links on your site?
September 13th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
This week, MySpace has been brutally censoring my posts. I was in the middle of a conversation with someone and MySpace suddenly for no reason shut down my account and wouldn’t let me log in. My alleged ‘crime’ was to ask someone what subject she was studying in school.