Saturday, July 15, 2006

Senator Ted Steven's MySpace Fan Club back 0n-line

It's a terrible song that sounds exactly like what you expect by novice on a guitar that has 20 minutes to kill. But since the lyrics were inspired by the Senate's CIO, it got some legs and ran it's 15 minutes of fame. That could have been the end if it, but there is a bigger story here that is worth noting.
Thanks to some publicity of his own, the song was heard 2,500 times before MySpace sent Raff a notice that his profile had been removed because of a "credible complaint" that it violated MySpace terms of service. The site was down for two days.

News outlets like Wired picked up the story then. And onlookers, aware of the Net neutrality irony, talked about the potential dangers of an Internet controlled by special interests. After all, Myspace is owned by Republican Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp.--could the freewheeling social network be exercising editorial control over a political spoof?

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