MySpace Users Revolt Against Murdoch

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.""

Comments

VAINSPACE

[Anonymous Coward]

Forget myspace, vainspace.com is where all the slutty underage girls hang out now!

Re:Shut it down

[Hee Hee Hee]

Offtopic, I know - but I don't care.

Good for you for sneaking around and checking up on your kids. I wish more parents would do that, instead of feeling like they have rights to privacy. They do - but when you find out something like this - all bets are off!

I hope you have a frank, calm discussion with your son soon. If you don't feel equipped to talk to him about it - find a counselor that can help you. There are lots of organizations willing to help.

Good luck!

Re:Stop being so cheap

[Stalyn]

As a 25 year old with a 3 digit /. id and without a MySpace account let me be the first to say... stfu n00b! God, I'm so lonely.

Anyway I never thought of the Internet as a place to meet new people. I always believed that there was a vast pool of new people to meet in my daily life such as at work, class, and just being outside. That even though my social skills were lacking it would be better to work on them with face to face interaction rather than admitting defeat and just trying to meet people on the Internet. I mean I have friends from the Internet, but I never met any of them. Maybe one day I will but for some reason I've always seperated Internet from Real-Life. Maybe the Internet is some place to escape for me...