MySpace users greeted the FCC’s new channel on the social network...
MySpace users greeted the FCC’s new channel on the social networking site with profanity and off-color rants. Several left comments protesting censorship. The channel, unveiled last week, also allows users to read commission blog posts and view videos. An…
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agency spokesman said Friday that the agency has “moderation policies for blog and ideascale comments, and are applying those principles to MySpace while we draft a moderation policy specific to that site.” Policies on the other FCC sites prohibit threats, obscenity and encouraging illegal activity, among other things. The FCC’s move to MySpace was criticized in a blog post Friday by Progress & Freedom Foundation President Adam Thierer. “I mean, shouldn’t someone over there have known it would take about 2 milliseconds for various cranks to launch into profanity-laced rants that would make George Carlin blush?” he said. An industry official said the MySpace page “offered a much needed chuckle on a rainy Friday.”