Today's article will explain why I made the decision to remove my link to Myspace. The decision to keep it off may be temporary or permanent depending on our final staff discussions. Currently we are discussing strategy on how to maintain our presence on their network, without compromising our message to you.
To explain how we arrived at this point it is important to know that our idea of using Myspace was due in part to Myspace advertising itself as a social networking site. When we decided to embark on this journey my partner was rather sceptical of this idea, as she saw an enormous amount of negative publicity surrounding Myspace. This was due to the media barrage that pedophiles were using Myspace to lure young children into relationships.
It was my opinion that Myspace responded to the negative publicity by implementing new safeguards to protect young children, and to give parents some security that their kids identity online could be protected. One thing that is important to know is that Myspace is still in its experimental or as we tech guys call it in its "Beta" stage. Parents still need to take notice and be aware of what their kids are doing on Myspace, especially the nature of their conversations with strangers.
To get into my situation, this is how we got suspended. We set up an account, and added our music, movies photos and information just like anyone else. We then did a search for Milford, CT and began networking by sending people a message and an invitation to join us as a friend. Soon after building up about 60 friends our account was suspended. At first we thought that we were somehow overzealous in our efforts to reach people and perhaps we were reported as spammers.
We then sent an e-mail to Myspace complaining about this suspension scenario. The Myspace team then replied back a day later with what looked like a non-human responce. They said we were imposters, or we were suspended due to the fact that we were impersonating someone else. This made absolutely no sense, so we believed that rather than fight this out we would just chalk it off. We even thought that maybe one of my opponents supporters reported us to bag our efforts at of which included disagreeing with him.
We started over and began again, this time with more caution and instead of the hundreds of friend invites, we kept it down to 50 or less pending invites. We built up to 30 friends and again we were suspended without explanation.
This prompted me to Google this problem and up came 663,000 hits on the error message stating: Invalid friend ID This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted. I did more research and landed a few criticisms of the site. The one that was most astounding was Rupert Murdoch was behind this site of which already made me uneasy since he is a known minion and supporter of media censorship.
To make things more interesting, the Connecticut Post confirmed in today's paper that the United States has now fallen to 48Th in Freedom of the Press out of 169. This now puts Slovakia ahead of the U.S. in free speech, and as Michael Moore states health care too.
So why the censorship? While I am no advocate of conspiracy theories, I will say that the vast number of complaints against Myspace is alarming, and Alex Jones whose article I will not rewrite in its entirety will be included as a link below. My personal belief is that Myspace is being used to heavily promote Hillary Clinton whose face is plastered in every ad, and people with objecting points of view appear to be under fire as the number of complaints I have currently read, and am still reading appear to be politically motivated giving Alex Jones much credibility in his assertions.
This video is one of thousands. It is a posting from a person who claims all grass roots efforts to promote Ron Paul are deliberately being deleted and censored by the Myspace Minions.
Read Alex Jones article at:
http://www.infowars.com/articles/science/myspace_trojan_horse_of_internet_censorship.htm
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Check out some positive things that the Milford Earth Day Committee are doing with Civic organizations and Girl / Boy Scouts.
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We need bodies to sign up now. Answer the call!! Let's clean up Milford on May 17 2008
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