Sunday, November 19, 2006

Joplin man sues MySpace

Details are sketchy, but a Joplin man is suing MySpace.com, claiming the company's decision to delete two of his profiles amounts to depriving him of his freedom of speech.
In his lawsuit, filed today in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Brian Mora, 35, says he had profiles deleted on Oct. 5 and Nov. 1 "because an administrator for the respondent simply disliked something displayed on the petitioner's profile, citing a fraudulent reason and calling it 'a violation of terms of service.' "
The petition says MySpace has "abusively attacked the petitioner for displaying and exercising protected freedom of speech and freedom of expression" and won't talk with him about the problem in person.
Mora's lawsuit does not give specific details of what was on the deleted profiles but he asks the court to stop MySpace from interfering with his:

-Support of specific political candidates
-Support of specific causes and organizations
-Support of specific individuals and their professional and humanitarian efforts.
Mora is representing himself.

2 comments:

andrea said...

Hm...It doesn't really seem like MySpace would do that...Haha. Unless, of course, Tom hates you. Hahaha. But really, you've got 16 year olds with pot leaves all over their profile but they're deleting this guy because they didn't like what he had to say? Oh please...

Anonymous said...

I THINK THE WHOLE MYSPACE SUING TREND IS OUT OF DATE! PEOPLE PLEASE THIS SITE IS TO COMMUNICATE WITH LOST AND FRIEDNS AND MAKE NEW ONES WHY ABUSE THE PRIVALAGE?