• MySpace Weeds-out Risque Content

    MySpace Weeds-out Risque Content

    Techtree News Staff, Apr 03, 2006 1643 hrs IST

    MySpace.com has removed over 200,000 objection-able profiles from its site in the last few months.

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In a "Get Clean" drive of sorts, the Web site MySpace.com has removed over 200,000 "objectionable" profiles from its site in the last few months.

MySpace.com which is run by News Corp's internet division, said that the pages have been taken down for including hate speech or being too risqu .

Ross Levinsohn, head - internet division, News Corp, said that this kind of content is fast becoming a problem that is intrinsic to the internet as a whole, and not just MySpace.com. He said that culling the objectionable material only meant that the site was being made safer.

Of late MySpace.com has been in the news... for all the wrong reasons...

Sometime back a California-based middle school student created a group on MySpace.com wherein he allegedly posted expletive remarks about a female classmate, besides threatening to shoot her repeatedly in the head. Not only did the boy face expulsion, but twenty of his classmates were suspended for viewing the posting.

MySpace also hit the headlines as the centre of controversy - whether the Web site was becoming a convenient place for predatory adults to solicit young teenage customers

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(6) Comments
Air
,Island, on Apr 21, 2006 02:05 PM
I'd say ... Lets Assisanate Narendra modi and VHP n RSS leaders who inflict social outrage & rioting in our country .
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Bob
,Chambersburg pa, on Apr 04, 2006 03:48 AM
Well Its funny it takes a accident to put in a stop sighn when it all could have been prevented by puting the stop sighn thier in the first place.
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Mr. Poppyseeds
,oh come on now, on Apr 03, 2006 11:58 PM
Like I said before - why the heck is it a NEWS item when they start doing what they should have done in the first place?
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fa rizzle
,wouldnt you like to know, on Apr 03, 2006 11:09 PM
why were the 20 people suspended for viewing it? thats stupid.
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Anonymous
,not where you'd think, on Apr 03, 2006 09:50 PM
maybe they should consider cleaning up their ad content too.
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compton compute
,New Delhi, on Apr 03, 2006 07:37 PM
This is good fun.
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