Rupert versus gays in cyberspace.

The Internet is a big place--unless you're Rupert Murdoch.

In a deal slated to close mid October, the News Corp. mogul recently paid $580 million for the parent company of MySpace.com--a site that is currently all the rage General Public's All the Rage was released in 1984 by I.R.S. Records. Track listing

"Hot You're Cool"
"Tenderness"
"Anxious"
"Never You Done That"
"Burning Bright"
"As a Matter of Fact"
"Are You Leading Me On?"
"Day-to-Day"

among hipster college students, straight or gay. The purchase was just another bauble in the conservative media baron's Web empire: In a seven-week period this summer, Murdoch spent $1.5 billion on Web acquisitions.

Home to over 10,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsender user groups, MySpace.com at the time of its sale reported 7.5 billion page views per month, behind only Yahoo, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). , and eBay.

Now many gay and lesbian users are worried that Murdoch--owner of such conservative media outlets as Fox News Network and the New York New York, state, United States
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Tom Anderson refers to several people:

Tom Anderson, the co-founder of MySpace.
Tom Anderson, a former member of the Alaska State Legislature.

, the site's creator, maintains the sale will not have an effect on the site.

"Everyone seems scared that MySpace is going to change," he wrote in an announcement that recently ran on MySpace for several days. "I'm not leaving ... and I'm not going to let things suck."

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Publication:	The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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Date:	Oct 25, 2005
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