A self-described anti-war website alleges MySpace blocks it:

Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace has been caught in another act of alternative media censorship after it was revealed that bulletin posts containing links to Prison Planet.com were being hijacked and forwarded to MySpace’s home page. MySpace has placed Prison Planet on a list of blocked websites supposedly reserved for spam, phishing scams or virus trojans.

— MySpace Censors Anti-War Websites, Prison Planet blocked as the model for government regulated Internet 2 gets a dry run, Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet, Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Prison Planet says it’s certain this is deliberate, because it observed it going on for more than two weeks and multiple people have observed it. However, it doesn’t give any evidence that MySpace is blocking this particular site because it’s anti-war, nor of any other anti-war sites being blocked by MySpace. Nor for that matter that Rupert Murdoch had anything directly to do with it.

Now I wouldn’t be surpised if MySpace or some other social networking site took it upon itself to block anti-war sites, but I don’t see this case proven, and it’s the only one (the article mentioned InfoWars, but that’s a Prison Planet affiliate). For that matter, is being against the Iraq war even controversial anymore? Continue reading →