mashable.com — Brad Greenspan, the guy who started the company that created MySpace before it was sold to News Corp in July 2005, is suing News Corp today over alleged censorship. They've blocked his video site Vidilife, and he's pissed.
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Closed AccountNov 3, 2006
You know, it's a common meme among Democrats that Fox News is supposed to be biased, yet I've never heard a single example. I've actually asked people who were ranting about Fox News, and they couldn't provide anything. They just kept telling me that if I didn't notice the bias myself, I was an idiot. It's one thing if you don't like Bill O'Reilly, but his show is an op-ed analysis show. I've never heard an example of bias cited in Fox's actual hard news coverage.Fox News actually maintains an internal list of its guests divided by liberals and conservatives so that they can make sure it's 50/50 at the end of a single day's programming. This is why you often see the split-screen debate format where one view is on the left, one is on the right, and the news anchor acts as moderator between them.I think some people just hate that a popular news channel airs conservative views on the same level as liberal views after so many decades of news organizations airing conservative views with derision. Why do you think conservative blogs and talk radio are so popular? Conservatives felt excluded by news organizations and sought alternative mediums to speak to the other 50% of America, and the market responded enthusiastically. A UCLA/Stanford study in 2004 already confirmed that the media leans left in its coverage, and another recent study showed mid-term election coverage leaning toward the Democrats and proclaiming victory a month ahead of the elections despite a very tight race.What I'm trying to say is that I think a lot of the "Fox News is biased" stuff might stem from a little bitterness over conservative viewpoints getting mainstream airtime beside liberal viewpoints.
subcomandanteNov 3, 2006
Crap. What does that make me?
macgyver2210Nov 4, 2006
oh man, what is this country coming to...This is just plain dumb. That's like Wendy's saying they're suing McDonalds because they won't let them put up Frosty ads in their windows. Of COURSE they don't want competitive sites to advertise on THEIR site, because that detracts from their business, and is counterproductive (probably at least a little). If people honestly think this could possibly win a anti-competition case in court, they're sorely mistaken. If it does win in court, screw this country I'm moving to Africa.Also, @ steeel, I would have to say it's because Microsoft was about to 100% TAKE OVER an entire section of the country's - if not the WORLD's - economy under their sole control. Antitrust and advertising on a competitor's site is VERY different. Myspace isn't using their influence to prohibit this other company from doing their thing, they're just not going to help them do it.
acceptab1eunameNov 4, 2006
@bonchx: here's plenty of examples: <a class="user" href="http://www.newshounds.us/">http://www.newshounds.us/</a>Yes, I'm aware they're biased against Fox, but they usually manage to more or less point out what's going on.
buellerdiggsNov 4, 2006
he is just a very rich whore, and i say that with admiration he plays his various entities off of each other it is awe inspiring how good he is at just making money peddling whatever sells.
0zzyNov 4, 2006
His name isn't Tom? He lied to us! Talk about censorship...
burkeNov 4, 2006
A cop?
Closed AccountNov 4, 2006
When you read these posts, you really get the idea that Digg is dominated by high school and college wanna-be web-designer geeks. They don't even know that "censorship" can ONLY be done by the government BY DEFINITION. MySpace is simply blocking what it deems to be unwanted (for whatever reason) code/speech/whatever from the servers IT owns. Try going into Best Buy and putting up a "Circuit City Rocks" poster, knuckleheads. Dude, seriously---you should digg me up just for using "knucklehead"
akinderNov 4, 2006
He's talking about that ".. Bug" that has hit a lot of people. I can't even link from my myspace profile back to my company because the banner is replaced with two dots, just like all the videos from Vidilife. Obviously, or I would hope, Myspace doesn't have any reason to censor my company, so maybe he just got bit by the bug?