myspace is murdoch’s space?
myspace got popular, and then it got bought, and now, apparently, it’s being pruned by the new owners…
Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch [independent, 8 jan 2006]The 38 million subscribers to MySpace, which News Corp bought for $629m (£355m) last July, 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.
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A spokesman for MySpace said it would not explain how the blocking of YouTube came about, nor how it was resolved, nor whether in future it would continue to block links to rival websites or censor messages between MySpace customers.
sounds like one of those determinism things to me.