[privacy] Murdoch taking MySpace down the tubes

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

from: http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6094655.html

Most of us bore witness this week to a rickety, nonsensical politician
explaining to Congress how the InterWeb is a series of "tubes."
Unfortunately, dear Senator Stevens is a key decision maker on Net
neutrality, and has what one blogger called a "Flintstonian"
understanding of the Internet.

The silliness escalated when a MySpacer let us listen to the Stevens
ramblings again, this time in B minor with a backbeat. But media king
Rupert Murdoch interrupted our uncomfortable laughter as the musical
MySpacer's page was cancelled. Poof.

Enter some inquiry from a Web news reporter as to why the political
parody-making MySpacer found himself now without a space, and the News
Corp. flacks responded: The deletion was an inadvertent "error."
Controlling information is a formidable goal, afterall, but even
massive media conglomerates aren't always up to the task. The missing
MySpace account was quickly reinstated. Unpoof.

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interesting comments as well

-JP<127.0.0.1 myspace.com #PRE | nbtstat -R>
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