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MySpace Users Revolt Against Murdoch

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mzkhadir

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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.""

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article337149.ece


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Well all I know is Myspace is still slow as balls and half of the features are broken at any given time.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Hm... how much are the users paying to have a MySpace account?
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Doesn't matter, people sign up for a free ad supported service, they expect that they keep their rights to freespeech as well as have the services promised working.
 
Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Originally posted by: thirtythree
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Hm... how much are the users paying to have a MySpace account?
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$50. My brother got me a special deal or somethin'.
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$50? OMG!

You mean you can MAKE money with the internet? 😕
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Yeah. Offer services, people pay.

Why Join MySpace?
» Create a Custom Profile
» Upload Pictures
» Send Mail and IM's
» Write Blogs & Comments
» Only $50!
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