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MySpace Deletes 200k “Objectionable” Profiles
Mar 31st
It seems that MySpace is responding to parental and safety concerns regarding hate and predatory speech on MySpace pages. They deleted 200k profiles. I think its a good start. They could delete about 800k more based on style choices and html coding skills.
From Financial Times here, with a nod to Drudge for the pointer.
MySpaceMySpace.com, the fast-growing community website hugely popular with American teens, has removed 200,000 objectionable profiles from its site as it steps up efforts to calm fears about the safety of the network for young users.
Ross Levinsohn, head of News Corp s internet division, said some of the material taken down contained hate speech . Some of it, he said, was too risqu .
It s a problem that s endemic to the internet not just MySpace, Mr Levinsohn said. The site, in the last two months, I think has become safer.
Advertisers have to feel confident their reputation will not be tainted by inappropriate content. Teachers and parents are concerned that, because information on MySpace is publicly available, it might put teenagers in contact with predatory adults. In terms of retaining its appeal, Mr Chernin said users had to keep feeling the site was theirs. We don t want to change the fundamental look and feel of the site, he said. We do not want users?to have any sense that it is corporatised.
I would be interested to see the criteria they chose to remove the profiles. This move will certainly have reverberations among the myspace community, and the persons removed will likely end up moving to a competitive journal. Some users, angry about this action to censor people, will also move to another site.
I bid them one and all adieu.
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Loading ...MySpace.Com- A Place for Rape
Mar 25th
Another MySpace horror story here. Its a horror story from the point of view of the victim, certainly, who was brutally raped by someone from her Friends List.
But imagine this horror- You and your spouse take a vacation or travel away for a weekend, leaving your supposedly mature 18 year old daughter at home alone to take care of the house. You come back home to find that your daughter was raped during a drunken party, your cars all wrecked, and all of your valuables looted from the home. Your savaged, hungover daughter can only explain to you that it happened because she invited friends that she met on Myspace over to the house for a party.
From the DenverChannel.com here:
Detectives used profiles posted on the Website MySpace.com to identify six suspects in a rape and robbery.
Detective Ali Bartley said six men have been arrested in connection with a party Feb. 23 that turned violent. A seventh suspect is sought. They face charges ranging from sexual assault to felony theft.
“There was blood in almost every room of the house. There were broken pictures and statues. They stole stereo equipment. The media center was bare,” she said.
Three cars were damaged when they were taken for joyrides.
“At some point, the victim was no longer aware of what was happening, and she was sexually assaulted,” said Bartley.
Bartley alleged, Nicolas Brison, 18, raped the victim while the others went on a rampage through the house, taking $40,000 in electronics, jewelry, clothing and other items.
The victim, whose name was withheld, met the suspects at MySpace.Com. She knew only their first names but their pictures were posted on MySpace.com.
“Primarily, we pulled up her friends list. It helped us identify some of the players,” said Bartley.
About $13,000 worth of stolen goods have been recovered.
Also arrested were Warren Washington, Chadron Brennan and Tyler Brougham, all 18, and Aaron Cannell, 20, and Andrew Heneks, 19.
Young people and teens think that just because someone has a MySpace Page, they are hip and cool. Wrong. Inviting strangers over to your house from a website makes as much sense as walking up to complete strangers in the Mall and asking them over.
Parents should consider this type of event their own personal nightmare and make it clear to their kids that they should never invite online acquaintances over to the house under any circumstance.
The rapist’s MySpace page is here, and he goes by the name of “40 Oz. Emperor”. Whats up with white kids thinking that they are black gangsters? Stupidity.
Thanks for the tip goes to MyCrimeSpace.Com for the story.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...I Hate Tom
Mar 21st
But on MySpace, he is my only friend.
I want this T-shirt. But MySpace is still the Devil! Thanks to Poppy for the tip.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Music Review: “Traffic on the Backbone”
Mar 18th
I brought my wife, my brother and my sister-in-law to the Wings House in Herndon tonight to just get together and get some food and catch up on each others’ lives. I had no intention of writing a music review.
But God help me, these guys sucked so bad, the world needs to be warned not to listen to their music. I haven’t seen a doctor yet, but I think the music gave me a staph infection in my navel. Yeah, it was that bad.
My brother is traumatized too. He watched me choke on a chicken wing, and when I was violently coughing, a broken chicken bone accidentally became wedged in the soft part under my tongue. I pulled it out after a struggle and some blood and tendon membrane came with it. When he finished gagging at the horrifying scene, he asked if it hurt bad. I replied “It burns, it burns, but it doesn’t hurt as bad as having to listen to this band!”
The name of the band is “Traffic on the Backbone” and is no doubt a play-on-words for a bunch of network geeks that work for a local ISP who have formed a start-up garage band. The music is supposed to be modern rock, but they butcher the music by playing off key, forgetting the lyrics to the songs, and skipping important parts to the songs- like bass lines, percussion, or even whole verses. Sometimes the band tries to mix it up a little by skipping lyrics to one song, a bass line to another, and sometimes, they get creative and skip all of them at once!
The lead singer, Jody Barry, lists his biggest influences as Farrah Fawcett and Susan Lucci from All my Children. Nothing says “Rock Star” to me more than a strung-out actress and a soap star. He also says the Fonz taught him how to score with Babes. I wish I was making this up. William Hung has more vocal range than Jody, and has been closer to fame than Jody will ever be. More untalented goodness can be found at their MySpace Page!
I guess you could color me “Not a fan!” I was completely relieved when they stopped for the night at 11:00 PM. I thought it was curious, however, that the band had a 14 piece percussion set and, I counted them- 9 guitars, including a cute tie-dyed guitar- and yet, somehow, they redefined the term “you suck” on a deeply personal level for me. It just goes to show that you can buy the most expensive drum sets and equipment, and it won’t make you sound professional. In fact, in the few moments that they sounded practiced and promising, the mixing and amplification sounded terrible. There was either overpowering bass or screeching offkey lyrics. A professional soundman may have been able to assist with the mixing to tone down the extremes, but face it- you can’t fix stupid.
They closed the performance with a cover of the Beastie Boys’ “You gotta Fight for Your right to Party.” You only need three chords for this song along with lyrics shouted in rhythm to the beat, but somehow the band messed this one up too.
You can get this band for your own party, bar or celebration. But stock up on Neosporin. Your navel will need it to ward off the staph infection. 
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Teen Convicted of Murder, Dismemberment
Feb 23rd
Teenage goth or juggelette has a spat with a girl about different boys in school. To settle her differences, 16 year old Sarah Kolb strangled her classmate, Adrianne Reynolds, and then proceeded to burn her body and dismember it and scatter the remains at public parks across two counties in Illinois.
Did this little precocious, murderous bitch have a MySpace Page? Of Course. But of more interest is another blogging site called DeviantArt, which also contained more of her blogs, photos, bad poetry and teen-angst riddled scrawlings about her bisexuality, bad taste in music and teenage dramatic happenstances.
Here is a pic of Adrianne, the victim:
The details of the murder and trial are here from the AP:
DIXON, Ill. – A teenage girl was convicted Wednesday in the killing of a 16-year-old classmate who was choked, beaten and sawed into pieces after an argument over boys.
Sarah Kolb, 17, faces up to 60 years in prison.
The victim, Adrianne Reynolds, had just moved to East Moline from Texas about two months before she was killed. Prosecutors said she was just trying to fit in at a new school but picked the wrong friend.
On Jan. 21, 2005, Kolb, Reynolds and schoolmate Cory Gregory were in Kolb’s car at a fast-food restaurant when the fight began. Reynolds was killed and her body was burned, dismembered and hidden in two counties.
Rock Island County State’s Attorney Jeff Terronez said Kolb wrote in a class journal that she was going to kill Reynolds just hours before Reynolds was beaten and strangled in the car.
Terronez said Kolb was angry because Reynolds had shown interest in Kolb’s boyfriend and Gregory, her ex-boyfriend.
Prosecutors say the two took the girl’s body to Kolb’s grandparents’ farm and burned it, then returned two days later, sawed the body into pieces and dumped the remains on the farm and in Black Hawk State Park in Rock Island.
The DeviantArt site was also prominently featured in the murder of Taylor Behl by Ben “Skullz” Fawley. Another reminder to parents that they should monitor their childrens’use of the internet.
The best details on this story can be found at Steve Huff’s Crime Blog located here: A nice quote from the MySpace page, that he pulled off last year after the initial crime, and before MySpace could delete it says….
Girls stab you in the back when pretending to care about you(…)Never hurt a woman …. she will come back and stab your stuffed animals, I know this from experience(…)I love nature and I love parks…(the last noted because one of the places she, Gregory, and Gaudet are alleged to have dumped parts of Adrianne Reynolds’ body is Black Hawk State Park.)”
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 6) Loading ...MySpace Users Fight, One Stabbed Several Times
Feb 17th
An article referenced by Drudge talks about Cyber-Bullies and online safety. What caught my attention, of course, is the bit about MySpace. Underage teens got into a cyber-spat with each other, and a 13 year old girl stabbed a 15 year old girl in the back several times. From the PalmBeach Post here:
Cyberspace new realm for bullies’ fear tactics
Schools, parents and students learn how to fight back from growing online torment.Two freshman girls from a school in Palm Beach County logged onto Match.com and created a profile for a teacher they didn’t like. Under interests they wrote “hard core porn.”
An unpopular kid that cheerleaders made fun of stole one of the girl’s buddy list, an online address book of her friends’ screen names, and offered it back in exchange for sexy pictures.
In January, a 15-year-old girl from Port St. Lucie was stabbed in the back several times allegedly by a 13-year-old former friend after getting into an argument on MySpace.com, a popular Internet blogging site. The 13-year-old was arrested and charged with aggravated battery.
Other teens send text message threats and profanity to classmates over cellphones while teen blogs propel gossip and cruel jokes anonymously and instantaneously.
In South Florida, school officials are conducting cyber-bullying seminars for parents, asking students to promise not to tease or harass classmates in cyberspace and addressing the topic in student conduct rules.
Some kids even share passwords to e-mail and blog sites. If the friendship goes bad, it can get nasty.
“They can go in and change their profile to say they’re gay, they do drugs and drink,” said Lee Munro, a technology teacher at St. Andrew’s School in Boca Raton. “They’ll pretend they are someone else and write ‘I hate you.’ Sometimes a lot of it is playful bantering, but sometimes the kids are malicious.”
“I went home after the meeting and started looking up all my friends’ kids up on MySpace,” said Wendy Greenhut, whose 12-year-old daughter attends American Heritage Academy west of Delray Beach.
Greenhut is considering purchasing monitoring software and moving the computer from her daughter’s bedroom to the den.
First of all, each incident of MySpace mentioned in this article includes underage teens, which is prohibited by the Acceptable Usage Policy of MySpace. MySpace needs to do more to prevent underage use of the site, and it also needs to police its content for violent and sexual speech and images. And any page that contains personal information needs to be deleted.
But more importantly, parents need to police their children’s Internet usage. Children are constantly posting personal information on their MySpace pages that would easily lead a sexual predator to them. And often parents are oblivious to their childrens’ surfing habits.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...MySpace to Get Own Phone Network
Feb 16th
Egads, MySpace continues to rot the popular culture. Soon you will be able to update the world’s worst looking websites with a really bad cellphone! Yipee! From the AP Here:
NEW YORK – The social networking site MySpace, hugely successful among teenagers and twenty-somethings, is about to become more ubiquitous with the launch of a cellular service that will let users read and post to the site for free.
The service and two accompanying phones will be launched in a few months by Helio LLC, a joint venture of Internet service provider Earthlink Inc. and South Korean carrier SK Telecom Co.
On MySpace, users keep personal pages with journals, communicate with friends and play games. It’s a formula that has attracted more than 54 million users and the attention of media conglomerate News Corp., which bought the site last year for $580 million.
This essentially means that Fox News paid over 10 bucks a piece for each shitty web site on MySpace. So now matter how horrifying your web authoring skills are, and no matter what crazy color scheme or background image you use, or what crappy band whose video you stream on your stupid MySpace Page, congrats, your site is worth over 10 Bucks.
“We’re able to leverage a lot of that experience about how to take social networking and put it on a device,” said Sky Dayton, founder of Earthlink and chief executive of Helio.
“What our target really cares about, this young consumer, is being connected to their friends and being connected to their world,” Dayton said, contrasting Helio’s idea to that of the major carriers, who are expanding sales of music, videos and games.
Newsflash for NewsCorp! Young Consumers? They mostly consume Internet bandwidth. Most MySpace users don’t have high paying jobs, or they still live at home. Any cellphone service you try to make will have to be bought by Mom and Dad.
Helio’s two phones, dubbed “Hero” and “Kickflip” will be based on Korean designs. Made by Pantech and VK Mobile, the phones will feature large color screens and cameras, but no QWERTY keyboards.
Helio will be a so-called “mobile virtual network operator,” meaning it won’t have its own cellular network. Instead, it will buy access to Sprint Nextel Corp.’s and Verizon Wireless’ high-speed networks.
I want a cell phone that will beep at me when someone who has a MySpace account gets within arm’s reach of me. That way I can smack that person upside the back of the head and tell them that MySpace is a waste of WebSpace. I would pay $19.99 per month for THAT service!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...MySpace Gay Axeman Killed in Shootout
Feb 5th
Self-professed “Juggalo”, high school dropout, and purported NeoNazi, Jacob Robida attacked two men in a bar with a hatchet, then shot another man in Massachusettes. He then fled, abducted a cyber girlfriend in West Virginia, eventually shot her, a policeman, and died in an ensuing shootout.
What does MySpace have to do with it? MySpace fails to screen members’ pages for violent themed speech, and does not report such speech to authorities, or at the minimum, disallow pages that contain such language. Robida used the chat programs, blog pages and friends postings to talk about his hatred for others. While such speech is protected under the first amendment, it is not protected under MySpace.
MySpace regularly deletes accounts that contain sexual material and language, and they delete accounts that are distasteful, such as pages created posthumously that lampoon the recently departed. For instance, after the death of Peter Jennings, dozens of pages cropped up about him and his propensity to chain smoke. If posthumous criticism of celebrities is not protected under MySpace acceptible usage, then hate speech and postings about violence should not be protected either. Jacob Robida’s MySpace page is here.
It contains some racist speech and some telling information on the psychotic murderer. For instance, this little gem of a poem:
PASS THE AXE
“Pass me something Sharp and Wicked and I’ll pass it back don’t worry I’ll pass it back.”
Hey click on the axe and grab it. Get your hands bloody baby! Add it to your page or put it in a comment box. Doesn’t matter where you put it just PASS THE FUCKIN AXE!
He goes on to say that his favorite murder weapon is a hatchet. These references are more geared to the “Insane Clown Posse” music lyrics than to naziism, but it doesnt matter. This scum bag is dead.
The whole sordid story from ABCNews here:
GASSVILLE, Ark. Feb 5, 2006 (AP) Two days after a violent rampage at a gay bar in Massachusetts, authorities said the teen suspect fled 1,500 miles to Arkansas where he fatally shot a police officer and a 33-year-old woman.
Jacob D. Robida, a high school dropout who friends said glorified Naziism, was shot twice in the head in a gun battle with police Saturday, officials said. He was critically injured.
After Thursday’s hatchet-and-gun attack at Puzzles Lounge in New Bedford, Mass., which injured three people, police said the 18-year-old fled in a green Pontiac and picked up Jennifer Rena Bailey, at her Charleston, W. Va., home.
“Apparently she’s had a prior relationship with this guy and had been corresponding with him,” said West Virginia State Police Sgt. C.J. Ellyson.
They were driving through the northern Arkansas town of Gassville when Officer Jim Sell pulled them over for a traffic stop. The teen twice shot Sell, 56, said Massachusetts prosecutor Paul Walsh Jr.
Witness Maryann Hoyne said she saw the officer’s squad car bumper to bumper with Robida’s car, and heard three gunshots. Sell was on the ground and Robida got back into his car and drove off, she said.
Sell returned a moment later to retrieve his gun, which he had left at the side of the officer, said Hoyne, manager of the Brass Door Motel in Gassville.
About 25 miles away, Robida drove over spike strips set out by state troopers and drove with two punctured tires into downtown Norfork. Robida’s car then careened into several parked vehicles to avoid a police barricade.
“When he wrecked he started firing at our officer and a state police officer, and the officers returned fire,” said Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery.
The teen shot the woman in the car with him before he was wounded in the shootout with police, Walsh said. State police wouldn’t confirm Walsh’s account and said ballistics tests would determine how the woman died.
The good news out of all of this is that this idiot’s friends on MySpace swear that the police had the wrong guy! They claim that the assaults were perpetrated by someone that hated Jake and wanted to set him up to take the fall. I guess this proves my theory that MySpace is just “Homepages for Dummies.”
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...MySpace.Com Involved in Sex Probe
Feb 3rd
Shocker. MySpace, the site of the most grotesquely coded personal websites, and alternatively known as homepages for dummies, is being used to stalk and harrass women. Some genius cops in Connecticut somehow stumbled onto this fact. From the AP here:
Police are investigating whether as many as seven teenage girls have been sexually assaulted by men they met through the popular Web site MySpace.com.
The girls, ages 12 to 16, are from Middletown and say they were fondled or had consensual sex with men who turned out to be older than they claimed. None of the incidents appeared to be violent, said Middletown Police Sgt. Bill McKenna.
He said it was difficult to determine the exact number of victims because some girls have been reluctant to disclose that they met their assailants online.
The social networking Web site allows users to create profiles that can include photos, personal information and even cell phone numbers.
In a statement Thursday, MySpace.com said it was committed to providing a safe environment for its users. The site, which includes safety tips, also prohibits use by anyone younger than 14, though a disclaimer says the people who run the site can’t always tell if users are lying about their ages.
If you are a parent, you probably should not allow your teenage daughter (or son) to have a myspace account. The content of the site is decidedly young adult, not teen. Secondly, if you do not monitor your child’s internet usage as a parent, you end up with teenagers making bad decisions like posting personal information about themselves online.
Taylor Behl and her killer, Ben Fawley regularly talked to each other on MySpace. And yes, to a pervert, the MySpace search feature looks like a dessert menu.
And surprise, people lie about their age online!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...The MySpace.Com Plague
Jan 5th
MySpace.Com is an Internet Plague!
Great article here at Attrition on the myspace.com internet phenomena:
http://attrition.org/news/content/05-12-31.001.html
I will admit that I played around with Myspace for a while. What can I say? I was bored and at work, and I was running around posing as ChandraLevy, and building a friends list of hated murderers like Jeff Dahmer and recently deceased celebs such as Peter Jennings.But somehow, my web profile was targeted as “poor taste” or some such nonsense and it was deleted. Then the content server at work began to block the myspace domain before I had a chance to recreate it.
But while I was there, I was bombarded by the worst HTML coding, sloppiest taste in web content, and some downright stupid people. My Chandra Levy character was being constantly hit on by really dumb guys! sheesh.
The article above sums it up well in its last paragraph…
When you hear people talk of online communities such as myspace.com, remember that they are not some fabulous social network advancing our culture. They are the scum of the internet, dragging it further down the sewers day by day. They are full of the most shallow, vapid and weak minded people our society has to offer. They are the next generation, and that scares me.
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