{"id":1596,"date":"2006-01-10T16:15:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T20:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2006\/01\/10\/myspace-angst\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:57:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:57:46","slug":"myspace-angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/10\/myspace-angst\/","title":{"rendered":"Myspace angst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;<i>Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch&#8217;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 &#8211; in particular the alteration of personal user profiles &#8211; provoked a storm of angry posts&#8230;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.<\/i>&#8216;<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/06\/01\/09\/1135209.shtml?tid=95&#038;tid=153\">Slashdot<\/a> (via Frederic B)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch&#8217;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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/10\/myspace-angst\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Myspace angst<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9289,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/9289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}