{"id":315,"date":"2006-03-31T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=315"},"modified":"2006-03-31T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T16:00:31","slug":"the_myspace_pur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"The MySpace purge"},"content":{"rendered":"

This just in: The inmates will not be running the asylum. The Financial Times reports<\/a> this morning that MySpace, a division of media giant News Corp, has kicked some 200,000 “friends” off the site for posting objectional material:<\/p>\n

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Ross Levinsohn, head of News Corp\u2019s internet division, said some of the material taken down contained \u201chate speech\u201d. Some of it, he said, was \u201ctoo risqu\u00e9\u201d. \u201cIt\u2019s a problem that\u2019s endemic to the internet \u2013 not just MySpace,\u201d Mr Levinsohn said. \u201cThe site, in the last two months, I think has become safer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But even as MySpace cleans up the site in reponse to pressure from “teachers and parents,” News Corp president Peter Chernin says, \u201cWe do not want users\u2009to have any sense that it is corporatised.\u201d That’s going to require a tricky balancing act and, I would think, a narrower definition of the site’s target audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This just in: The inmates will not be running the asylum. The Financial Times reports this morning that MySpace, a division of media giant News Corp, has kicked some 200,000 “friends” off the site for posting objectional material: Ross Levinsohn, head of News Corp\u2019s internet division, said some of the material taken down contained \u201chate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}