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Sunday, January 8, 2006

Whose Space? Rupert’s

Posted by DAN SAVAGE on January 8 at 11:34 AM

Is Rupert Murdoch destroying MySpace? Depends on whether you think censorship and dirty tricks will help or hurt MySpace’s cred.

Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites. 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.

Via Atrios.

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But, really, isn't censorship something only the state can do? If myspace is blocking objectionable posts then it's not censorship - it's time to use another service.

Posted by Brian | January 8, 2006 12:37 PM

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Good point...

Posted by Dan Savage | January 8, 2006 12:43 PM

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Um, I've had friends link to YouTube videos on MySpace without problems.

Posted by Gomez | January 8, 2006 3:30 PM

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