Is MySpace censoring anti-war Websites? at Mediacology

I don’t know anything about a government regulated Internet 2, nor am I familiar with Prison Planet (an image I don’t agree with), but I did find the following news of MySpace censorship disturbing, but not surprising.

MySpace Censors Anti-War Websites:

MySpace Censors Anti-War Websites
Prison Planet blocked as the model for government regulated Internet 2 gets a dry run

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace has been caught in another act of alternative media censorship after it was revealed that bulletin posts containing links to Prison Planet.com were being hijacked and forwarded to MySpace’s home page. MySpace has placed Prison Planet on a list of blocked websites supposedly reserved for spam, phishing scams or virus trojans.

It has been apparent for at least two weeks that all bulletin posts containing links to Prison Planet were being censored but we decided to wait and see if it was just a technical error before drawing any attention to the problem.

Now there is little doubt that MySpace has deliberately filtered out Prison Planet, preventing anyone from accessing the site via the social networking giant.

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