On Jan 18 2007, elw@stderr.org wrote:
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. DLB -- Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 ********************************** voice: 612-626-8726 fax: 612-625-2011 bits: burkx006@umn.edu