Trouble in ObamalandApparently the campaign got
a little heavy-handed with a MySpace guy who had 160,000 friends.
Whatever the case, at this point it appears the Obama people simply decided that they would get control of the myspace.com/barackobama url by going around Anthony and getting MySpace to lock down his access to it. In their view, Anthony was violating MySpace's terms of service by falsely representing himself as Obama, and thus they didn't have to pay him anything. The worst that would happen, they reasoned, is that they would have to rebuild the candidate's network of friends.
Now, you know how it is; there are arguments to be made on both sides here. But the important thing is that Obama's campaign has just
ticked off the netkooks and so there will be
hell to pay.
Labels: Barack Obama, MySpace