Myspace banning users links to porn sites.

[miz_wright]

Originally Posted by deviant

I've noticed that my site has been receiving traffic from links that users are sending each other on myspace. Myspace rewrites all of the urls that it's users send each other and it is these custom urls that I'm finding as referrals to my site. My site is a one man show, it's just me and there are no downstream affiliates or anyone with any incentive to post links to my site on myspace other than users who saw something they liked and wanted to share it with a friend. But when I click the referral links I'm greeted with a nice message from myspace informing me that the link was banned because it was either spam, a phishing attempt, or a link to a virus. None of which is actually the case. I have never posted anything on myspace in regards to my site.

Has anyone else run into this? If so did you do anything to rectify the situation? Contact myspace and inform them of their error? It's obvious to me that they banned the link because it led to porn. How do you feel about myspace prohibiting users from sharing links to adult material with each other?

They've been re-writing links to anything of an adult nature for a while now - for the most part, they bounce to the MySpace front page. I've had a few friends who run various companies running into this for a while - they would have a link to their corporate entity in their profile, and find their link had been changed to a redirect. Others who mention adult subject matter in a bulletin noting a new blog or similar are having theirs altered as well (prime example: Kevin Smith (of Clerks and Dogma fame) posted a blog about his new movie (Zack and Miri Make a Porno) and created a bulletin linking to said blog; all of his readership found themselves on the MySpace front page.

*sniffs*
*smells something rotten*

Oh, hai, you guise! Lookit the censorship!