The Cranky Media Guy

No more MySpace

Yeah, this is gonna work!  I mean, there’s NO way the ACLU is going to get involved in this.  Duh.  I mean, CLEARLY, enrolling in a Catholic school means that the school can dictate to you what website you can have on your non-school time.  Yup, absolutely NO chance of a massive lawsuit here, after some kid violates this policy and the school tries to kick him or her out.

There’s another aspect of this that I’m curious about: do the good sisters at St. Hugo’s think that MySpace is the only place where a kid can have an online presence?  So, if little Janey flashes her cooch on her MySpace page and Susan has an equally slutty Xanga page, does only Janey get expelled?  This is what happens when the cyber-stupid try to regulate things. 

Methinks the nuns watch the 10 o’clock news on the local Fox affiliate which, if it’s anything like the one out of Portland, deliberately chooses its stories based on their scare potential.  I am amused, however, whenever they run a “bad stuff happens to teen who had a MySpace page” story, since MySpace is owned by News Corp., the parent company of Fox.  Yes, I know that most of the affiliates aren’t owned by Fox, but they DO use the Fox logo and identifiers, so it’s fun to watch them eat their own.  Conflicting interests are SUCH fun to observe, aren’t they?

My prediction?  Someone deliberately challenges the St. Hugo’s dictum, goes to court and wins a settlement.  Hey, if you’re the person who is planning on challenging this rule, here’s a suggestion: when you win your court case, make part of the settlement that the nuns have to apologize to you on a MySpace page for the world to see.  Fuck the penguins!  Make ‘em crawl for trying to limit your right to free speech.