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Bush As The Joker - Acceptable, Obama As The Joker -
Offensive/Violent
Myspace censorship of Jokerbama image continues
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Censorship of the viral "Jokerbama" image continues
on one of the largest social network websites on the internet,
Myspace.
Users have now discovered that uploading images
of George W. Bush as The Joker is deemed to be acceptable, while
attempting to upload Obama as The Joker is classed as a violation
of terms and conditions.
Yesterday
we revealed how Myspace, along with Flickr, the
Yahoo owned photograph social network, are engaging in political
censorship by removing or denying the Jokerbama image on users'
pages and photo albums.
Users attempting to upload the image are met with
the following message from Myspace:
Error: The image you have attempted to upload
has been rejected for violating our Terms of Use. Common reasons
for image rejection include nudity, violent or offensive material,
or copyright infringement. To learn more please review our Photo
Policy and Terms of Use.
Other users received an email from Myspace "Safety
& Security" threatening to close and completely delete
their accounts should they continue to attempt to post the image.
Related
Reading: Obama as Joker Explained
Today we have received more evidence from Myspace
users that the Rupert Murdoch owned company is engaging in partisan
political censorship.
Infowars reader and Myspace member Mitch Gooden
emailed us with the following explanation:
I've had the joker/obama image with the infowars.com
subtitle in my myspace photo album for at least a month now...
after reading the article on infowars about the social networking
sites removing obama/joker images i decided to upload the
joker/obama and the joker/bush images with the fascism subtitle
to see what would happen and wouldn't you know it... the bush
accepted and the obama denied... i will include screen shots.
Another reader, Christopher Canny, found he had
the same problem with the Bush and Obama Joker images on Myspace,
he sent us the following explanation:
I tried to upload both the Obama joker fascism
poster AND the Bush joker fascism poster.
First picture "photo choices" is the myspace pic
loader showing the folder on my computer that contains both
pictures.
Second picture "Bush upload" shows how the Bush
fascism poster is accepted without error.
Third picture "Bush done" shows the Bush poster
accepted and IN my myspace picture folder that I'd made for
this project.
Forth picture "Obama attempt" shows the computer
folder again with the Obamajoker fascism poster selected for
upload.
Fifth picture "Obama rejected" shows the Obamajoker
fascism poster immediately rejected.
Conclusion: parodying Bush is ok and parodying Obama is unacceptable.
Yet another Myspace user, Greg Miller, also complains
of having the exact same problem:
I was able to upload a photo of Bush AND Obama
as joker, so we'll see how long that lasts. But if anyone
wants to organize a "Boycott MySpace Fascists" movement,
count me in...
(Article continues below)
During Obama's presidential campaign we were subjected
to months and months of mass media exposure of the Shepard Fairey
images of Obama with the words "Hope" and "Change"
attached. Now, nine months into his Presidency, many who are
yet to see any change and thus foresee very little hope in Obama
are using the exact same method of visual campaigning to make
their feelings known.
The corporate elite with their media empire will
not tolerate such dissent, however, and their answer is to engage
in egregious and blatant censorship, in addition to concocting
smear campaigns and attempting to frame the issue
firmly within the false left/right political paradigm.
At this time Myspace have still not responded
to our request for an explanation as to why they are removing
the Jokerbama image.
You can try to contact Myspace for an explanation
via their FAQ page here.
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