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MySpace Users Revolt Against Murdoch

Posted by Hemos on from the the-joy-of-running-user-communities dept.

arclightfire writes "Looks like Murdoch's News International have stired up a revolt within users of the MySpace file-sharing site they purchased for $629m (£355m) last July, reports the Independent; "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...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. The intervention by News Corp in the traditionally open-access world of the web - in particular the alteration of personal user profiles - provoked a storm of angry posts...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.""

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  1. It IS My Space by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It IS My Space.

    All Mine.

    Rupert

  2. File Sharing? by AsnFkr · · Score: 5, Funny

    MySpace, the personal file-sharing

    Myspace is not a file-sharing site. Its one of those "Social-hub" places fat girls post blurry pictures of themselves on.

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  3. Rupert is just jealous. by ryg0r · · Score: 4, Funny
    No one has added him as to their friends list. Of course he's going to get a bit cranky.

    However samy is my hero.

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  4. Re:Er... by Stephen+Williams · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure it is. It's a site for angsty teenagers to share pictures of themselves looking miserable.

    -Stephen

  5. Re:just a minute by blowdart · · Score: 5, Funny
    Wouldn't the world actually be a BETTER place if all the users revolted, and the site shut down altogether?

    What, and risk having their target audience spread out over the net? At least myspace is a single area that contains their poetry about failed fumblings in the back site of mom's car, their discussions of exactly which black t-shirt are they supposed to wear with what foundation and their row upon row of identical self portraits each proclaiming they look goth because it's unique and original.

    No, we should hail Murdoch as a brave netizen for keeping them all in one (mosh) pool.

  6. My God, that's terrible by Deep+Fried+Geekboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only there were OTHER ways of posting pictures of yourself on the internet with the spots photoshopped out in the hope that some girl in Kansas will think you're hot and add her to her friends list while discussing with your bedroom-bound peer group the latest netvid of some jerk wiping out on his BMX and straddling his nuts on the crossbar while simultaneously downloading pirated copies of godawful corporate-fabricated whine rock.

    Oh, the humanity! Won't somebody think of the children?

    Oh, hang on...

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  7. Re:just a minute by ScaryFroMan · · Score: 5, Funny
    Wouldn't the world actually be a BETTER place if all the users revolted, and the site shut down altogether?

    I think the users are revolting already...

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    In Soviet Russia, backwards is everything.
  8. Re:just a minute by kalbzayn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use myspace to make sure my monitor can really print all the millions of colors it claims it can. All you have to do is view any page on myspace and it is guaranteed to use each and ever color possible