Just so you know.... My Space is owned by Newscorp....

[WCGreen]

Which also owns and operates Fox News....

Which generates money for Rupert Murdoch...

Which he in turn uses to support the people we are fighting against....

[arcane1]

1. yet another reason MySpace sucks

:)

[liontamer]

2. i knew there was a reason myspace was so sleazy eom

[rinsd]

12. Myspace is sleazy? How so?

Because people online may not be who they say they are?

Because some pedophiles have used it?

Because pedophiles never used the internet before?

[texastoast]

16. Because they watch your computer use

Add that one.

[rinsd]

18. Spyware? Cookies? (nevermind)

What are you talking about?

On Edit: Just saw your post lower down the thread.

[liontamer]

17. because everytime I log on, I get more messages from random guys

than I get from my friends (unlike friendster). So really none of your reasons.

[rinsd]

20. Adjust your privacy settings....

You can make you photo and profile only viewable to friends.

I get mostly spam from non-friends though some of it is cool (bands who see the music I have) alot of it is porn stuff where thr girl simply LOVES my profile and is wondering if I want to see some pictures.

On edit: sometimes I leave my thinking cap at home and don't realize the shit that women must put up with on that site.

[Atmashine]

3. That's why we have a Democratic Underground Group

On myspace. Infiltrate and assimilate.

[texastoast]

6. Is there a link? n/t

[WCGreen]

8. Here is a link to the page on their site....

http://www.newscorp.com/operations/other.html

[neoblues]

4. Murdoch's attempt to influence the younger generation... nt.

[dave123williams]

5. Old news...they got bought out for about $580mm 6 months ago.

They're getting their toes wet with online advertising, and just bought a huge network.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

7. I didn't know there was a DU Group on myspace. I just put in

a request to be added. Cool!

[unda cova brutha]

11. yeah, I will look for it too.

Im there under my same name as here.

[WCGreen]

9. People need to be reminded....

So they can make a decision based on facts....

[nosillies]

10. I can see the headline now...

"Powerful Conservative Responsible for Spreading Pornography and Creating a Friendly Environment for Pedophiles."

You know if Soros or somebody like that owned it the conservative pundits would be all over this shit.

Somebody please get on it. I'd do it myself if I had a blog. I'll help you write it.

[rinsd]

14. That could just as easily be changed to....

From: "Powerful Conservative Responsible for Spreading Pornography and Creating a Friendly Environment for Pedophiles."

To: "Al Gore Responsible for Spreading Pornography and Creating a Friendly Environment for Pedophiles."

After all credit where credit is due :sarcasm:

Jesus H. Christ people why slam a cool little netowrking thing that I use to keep in touch with friends not in my daily life? Because Murdoch owns it?

Anyone here watch anything on Fox TV network or FX?

[nosillies]

19. I know, why do we have to boycott all the fun things :)

:rofl:

[rinsd]

21. Damn you Murdoch! Why do you tempt me so!

[Hippo_Tron]

13. So how about I use their bandwidth and not click on their ads?

[texastoast]

15. Myspace sends lots of miner cookies to your computer

every time you log on. So clean the slime off yourselves when you leave the website.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

22. Murdoch has his own profile on there, it's recommended for a look

http://www.slate.com/features/myspace/

[nosillies]

23. oh my

:rofl:

[Synnical]

24. My Space scams artists, steals their content/creativity

This was posted in GD in May:

MySpace hijacks artists

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/36114 /

It's all fun and games until someone gets their content ripped off by a huge media conglomerate.

Chatter around the web -- see this post at The Register, for example -- is buzzing about the realization that MySpace users give up rights to any material that they post to their profiles on the site. Someone actually sat down and read the terms of service, which include gems like this:

By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") on or through the Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services.

The terms were changed on May 1st to say that once you remove your profile and/or the content, that News Corp. will remove your information from their servers and won't distribute it later. Awfully nice of Mr. Murdoch, isn't it?

So much for the site that provided a quick and easy way for independent artists to distribute their creativity; now it's just one big repository for News Corp. to siphon from. Anyone have any suggestions for other sites artists can use without getting ripped off?

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale