To all those who believe in freedom of speech and expression please read and request friendship. We are acting as a consumer pressure group to seek change. It is no different than wanting hot chicken soup when you go to your favorite restaurant but they continually serve it cold. You are loyal to the brand because you love the perfectly made entre, so your not going to leave just because of cold soup. But you may start to complain that the cold chicken soup is a problem.
There are so many different opinions, words and expressions floating around on myspace that we forget that each individual has the power to choose what they see, hear and read. Tommy Smothers said it best when he said, "The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen." We do not need censors to tell us what is right or wrong, we as individulas are more than capable of making that decision for ourselves. We as individuals have the power to add or delete friends, and better still, we have the ability to communicate our opinions in order to sway others without having to delete anyone. We do not need Big Brother or a generic account named Tom to act as our Mother!!!! We are more than capable of taking care of ourselves and deciding how to act. If I find it offensive I do not have to add as a friend. I do not have to engage a profile. I can delete a friend. I can report spam. You don't like Howard Stern, Jimmy Grahm, Fox News, CNN, and so on........THEN DON"T WATCH. We are not children where we need to run home to our mothers, or Tom, because someone used words to hurt our feelings. Or because we do not understand why others would use those words. What a great site where others can find out what we do not understand just by asking such a question! Imagine if we did that. Then perhaps we might understand the other side of the story and see where an individual, group, or politic is comming from. Then maybe the world would be less of a scary place for some.
With all the different groups of people, politics, religions, governments, clubs and you name it on Myspace, it would be virtually impossible for everyone to agree on the same ideals, opinions, or expressions of ones self. We are not robots!!!! Our ability to think allows us to make decisions seperate from the group. If we can agree on anything, we should simply agree to disagree.
People are being deleted by myspace clearly due to bigotry by individulas or even racism by the gods of the site itself. What some of them percieve as an offense others clearly do not. Hell, if my mother was actually a moderator here, 90% of the profiles would have been deleted, and thats the point! Who can truly be empowered to think for us and decide what I can or cannot see or hear or express?
I myself, am the only one capable of that! I am a big boy Tom and others, thanks for trying to walk me across the street, but I can handle it.
Therefore I ask myspace to stop deleting accounts because an individual other than myself has determined they are not approriate. Stop deleting accounts of one group while allowing others in a group to stay on for the same abuses, only because you favor the other group, or view them as politically correct. Remember political correctness is actually a fascist way of elliminating free speech and the ability to disseminate information.
By adding as a friend to this site I support the absolute freedom of speech and expression for all groups and individuals on myspace.
BY THE WAY. THIS SITE WAS DELETED BY THE CENSORS AT MYSPACE ON 3/28/07 because of expletives being left on comments. As a result, and since we are still under the TOS of Myspace, we preview all comments prior to posting.
For those of you who may want to point out that Myspace is a business and not answerable to the Constitution, we never said they were. As a friend so eloquently put it, "As an aside, while you're correct that corporations and private owners have the right to limit expression on their sites, it was popular acquiescence to delimiters upon Constitutional free speech in ALL areas (not just governmental) which made it so. Society could have, at any time, required businesses to adhere to Constitutional precepts at all levels. We, or rather "our" representatives, chose otherwise.The fact remains, Myspace is quite discriminatory in cherry-picking profiles for deletion while allowing certain protected groups and individuals great latitude. And their TOS is intentionally vague and full of weasel clauses; they CAN delete for content but they don't HAVE to do so. That kind of randomness is what drives people crazy. I have no problem with the idea of maintaining decorum and standards if ALL are held to the same standards. I have a big problem with a) not knowing exactly what those standards are and how they will be enforced and b) the seemingly targeted deletions ongoing without any reason provided even after multiple requests. Do they not owe their users at least that courtesy? How can anyone toe a line and stay within a box when the lines of the box are unclear?"
