I agree with at least half of what you're saying but I don't completely agree with your theory.
When I joined My Space in November 2004 it already had 5 million members and I joined in order to hype my college radio show which was banned in 2006 by State University employee(s) and enforced by campus security all in violation of the 1st and 14th Amendments of the US Const, which all Federal Courts upheld.
The censorship aspect of your theory in conjunction with Rupert Murdoch is partially correct in that My Space did in fact lower the age from 18 to 13 in order to sell things and one of the first things they sold was music in exchange for how many pix you could have on your profile. Maybe they more diligently enforced anti-nudity after the membership age was lowered, but the anti-nudity policy was always there. For Example the following is my 1st picture My Space deleted
And as my status message indicates "Fascism cannot Exist w/out Snitches: no government is so powerful that it can patrol each person - the same is true for social networking"
But still a sort of "Indie" ambiance was present and thus the potential for it's development was there too, but it didn't happen.
The reason it didn't happen and the Deep Issue is a reflection of America - e.g., art is not the trip of the entrepreneur the latter is merely an exploiter of a trend - if he can sell the object depicting the trend to make money then art will be sold, otherwise it fails - o look this promotes traditional American values let's get Mitch McConell to help us sell it as art. And like all things of that nature - in the USA - the potential became tinctured with capitalist decadence - Catch 22 you can make art or try to sell it but if you're making it you don't have time to sell it ...
So we can thank Hugh Hefner for his support of the 1st Amendment but we have to evolve beyond nudity for respectable profitability and just approach it as a wonderful aspect of life.
For example I came onto My Space via the Susan Block show where some of her guests had My Space profiles. The difference of course is that these people along with others were essentially promoting themselves in the hope of monetary success, so in most cases, if they were doing anything that seemed outside the status quo, it was only a trend of the time - they were already a part of, or attempting to enter, "the industry"; and sadly that is the trend that prevailed - in other words there was never an artistic aesthetic that was actually developed or promoted on My Space it was always all about money and all about advertising - and without alternatives, we were dazzled and duped into the 'kindler and gentler' right wing $$s trip and forgot about the Left. And alas, this is America and regrettably what America is all about - viz., buying property and re-selling it or something from it.
The only solution to this problem is Free Speech and Freedom of Expression and the lack thereof is clearly the problem - but it is pandemic it is not relegated to My Space; what is relegated to My Space is the aggressive want to censor nudity. Neither the State nor Federal government can force them to do this it would violate the 1st and 14th Amendments and neither would advertisers want them to either because everyone enjoys nudity ...unless there is peer pressure to exoterically act otherwise - i.e., to exploit ignorance and fear for power and control - so it is as always a very small number of individuals that convince the majority to go along with it - it is Hitlerian and inherently Fascist in nature - and in order to annihilate this trend - we have to convince the masses that censorship is the reason their life is so boring and miserable, not the economy and not even the criminalization of drugs that are fun I mean who wants to be high around a gaggle of Nazi fascists or paranoid fundamentalists with Police whistles?
When I joined My Space in November 2004 it already had 5 million members and I joined in order to hype my college radio show which was banned in 2006 by State University employee(s) and enforced by campus security all in violation of the 1st and 14th Amendments of the US Const, which all Federal Courts upheld.
The censorship aspect of your theory in conjunction with Rupert Murdoch is partially correct in that My Space did in fact lower the age from 18 to 13 in order to sell things and one of the first things they sold was music in exchange for how many pix you could have on your profile. Maybe they more diligently enforced anti-nudity after the membership age was lowered, but the anti-nudity policy was always there. For Example the following is my 1st picture My Space deleted
And as my status message indicates "Fascism cannot Exist w/out Snitches: no government is so powerful that it can patrol each person - the same is true for social networking"
But still a sort of "Indie" ambiance was present and thus the potential for it's development was there too, but it didn't happen.
The reason it didn't happen and the Deep Issue is a reflection of America - e.g., art is not the trip of the entrepreneur the latter is merely an exploiter of a trend - if he can sell the object depicting the trend to make money then art will be sold, otherwise it fails - o look this promotes traditional American values let's get Mitch McConell to help us sell it as art. And like all things of that nature - in the USA - the potential became tinctured with capitalist decadence - Catch 22 you can make art or try to sell it but if you're making it you don't have time to sell it ...
So we can thank Hugh Hefner for his support of the 1st Amendment but we have to evolve beyond nudity for respectable profitability and just approach it as a wonderful aspect of life.
For example I came onto My Space via the Susan Block show where some of her guests had My Space profiles. The difference of course is that these people along with others were essentially promoting themselves in the hope of monetary success, so in most cases, if they were doing anything that seemed outside the status quo, it was only a trend of the time - they were already a part of, or attempting to enter, "the industry"; and sadly that is the trend that prevailed - in other words there was never an artistic aesthetic that was actually developed or promoted on My Space it was always all about money and all about advertising - and without alternatives, we were dazzled and duped into the 'kindler and gentler' right wing $$s trip and forgot about the Left. And alas, this is America and regrettably what America is all about - viz., buying property and re-selling it or something from it.
The only solution to this problem is Free Speech and Freedom of Expression and the lack thereof is clearly the problem - but it is pandemic it is not relegated to My Space; what is relegated to My Space is the aggressive want to censor nudity. Neither the State nor Federal government can force them to do this it would violate the 1st and 14th Amendments and neither would advertisers want them to either because everyone enjoys nudity ...unless there is peer pressure to exoterically act otherwise - i.e., to exploit ignorance and fear for power and control - so it is as always a very small number of individuals that convince the majority to go along with it - it is Hitlerian and inherently Fascist in nature - and in order to annihilate this trend - we have to convince the masses that censorship is the reason their life is so boring and miserable, not the economy and not even the criminalization of drugs that are fun I mean who wants to be high around a gaggle of Nazi fascists or paranoid fundamentalists with Police whistles?
The best way to do that is to show them alternatives and not compromise with the status quo - e.g., you don't have to surrender your rights in order to be accepted
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