For those of you who are knowledgeable about policy: Why isn't My Space viewed as a common carrier, and hence not responsible for the content that is shown on its pages? Or is it, and this whole lawsuit is just, well, B.S.?
The presence of advertising (of their own) all over MySpace's pages would seem to be one of the first of many reasons to kick them out of common-carrier status.
I'm not sure I follow this. MySpace is clearly not a common carrier, but common carriers advertise and carry ads all the time. My telephone carrier(s) plaster ads everywhere they can think of.
They don't, however, interrupt your use of the service to shove their ads at you. At least, not usually. ;) There's a strong sense of non-neutrality surrounding myspace. It is a non-common-carrier service, as you say - the advertising plastered everywhere just makes it more obvious that they're a for-profit business. [Probably a faux pas on my part to mention advertising first as part of a discussion of common carrier status - they're related, intuitively, to me. Oh well.] --e