Thursday, May 3rd, 2007...May 3, 2007
Obama steals his MySpace profile
In this story, it says the Barack Obama stole his likeness on myspace from a person who had the unoffical Obama profile.
Obama’s campaign is facing some pointed criticism today, after it reportedly commandeered a volunteer-run Obama MySpace page…Needless to say, it wasn’t long before the Obama campaign caught wind of the site and began to feel a little uncomfortable about having an outsider control such a public outlet…In the end, the Obama campaign approached MySpace directly and demanded the profile, arguing that Anthony was falsely representing himself as Obama and that the senator had the right to the URL containing his name. Its feet to the fire, MySpace conceded. “Finally … the campaign emailed me, indicating that MySpace needed my consent to give them access to the profile,” wrote Anthony. “I replied that MySpace did not have my consent to grant access to the profile to anyone. An hour or so later, I was blocked from the profile and the content was altered to redirect traffic to the new, ‘official’ profile.”

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