Link: http://www.secularstudents.org/node/1933
It appears that MySpace has a hostile attitude towards atheists and agnostics.
A user group which has been around since 2003 was recently hacked and as a result was deleted. In the past when this has happened to Christian Groups Tom has restored the group and declared that he will protect it from further attack. When this happens to an atheist group the reaction is somewhat more dismal. MySpace? has done nothing to assist this group which had had over 35,000 members.
Source.
MySpace refuses to undelete the group, although it never violated any terms of service,said Bryan Pesta, Ph.D., the group’s moderator.When the largest Christian group was hacked, MySpace’s Founder, Tom Anderson, personally restored the group, and promised to protect it from future deletions.
It is an outrage if Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and the world’s largest social networking site tolerate discrimination against atheists and agnostics– and if this situation goes unresolved I’ll have little choice but to believe they do,said Greg Epstein, humanist chaplain of Harvard University. News Corporation, Murdoch’s global media corporation which also includes Fox News, purchased MySpace? in 2005.
My personal profile was deleted as well, and despite weeks of emails to customer service, plus a petition signed by 500 group members, MySpace? won’t budge. I think these actions send a clear message to the 30 million godless people in America (and to businesses whose money was spent displaying ads on our group) that we are not welcome on MySpace,said Pesta.
It has been said that one of the reasons for the deletion of the group was because of numerous complaints, about the groups presence, from myspace users who found the existance of group offensive.
I agree with Oz Atheist, the only way to handle this is to swamp myspace with godlessnesshe has outlined a number of appropriate responces, I have changed my religion setting from “No Religion” to “Atheist", despite my misgivings about labeling atheism a religion. I’ve made a bulletin about the issue and as soon as I submit this here, I’ll be reposting this on my profiles blog.
Thanks to Oz Atheist for the info.







