MySpace Weeds-out Risque Content

In a "Get Clean" drive of sorts, the Web site MySpace.com has removed over 200,000 "objectionable" profiles from its site in the last few months.

MySpace.com which is run by News Corp's internet division, said that the pages have been taken down for including hate speech or being too risqu .

Ross Levinsohn, head - internet division, News Corp, said that this kind of content is fast becoming a problem that is intrinsic to the internet as a whole, and not just MySpace.com. He said that culling the objectionable material only meant that the site was being made safer.

Of late MySpace.com has been in the news... for all the wrong reasons...

Sometime back a California-based middle school student created a group on MySpace.com wherein he allegedly posted expletive remarks about a female classmate, besides threatening to shoot her repeatedly in the head. Not only did the boy face expulsion, but twenty of his classmates were suspended for viewing the posting.

MySpace also hit the headlines as the centre of controversy - whether the Web site was becoming a convenient place for predatory adults to solicit young teenage customers