MySpace accused of censoring satire on senator

Oh dear! This isn't a good example of MySpace.com's supposed belief in freedom of expression. Last week the Senate was treated to a bizarre speech by Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska who showed a lamentable grasp of modern communications by explaining how it took him a long time to receive an internet (ie, email) because it kept getting tangled up in other stuff clogging up the interweb (sic) which, he helpfully explained, is a "series of tubes". A video of Stevens's speech was soon to be found on various sites and one MySpace user added a groovy backbeat. It attracted many viewers until MySpace deleted the page. After protests, a company spokesman claimed it was an inadvertent error, and the page returned. Now the interweb is humming with complaints about censorship by the site's owner, Rupert Murdoch. I doubt it, but he needs to control the second-guessers. (Via corpwatch.org)