This is wrong! Atheists have as much right as anyone to use the Internet to set up networks. Why should MySpace be allowed to discriminate against them? And those Christians who worked to get this group deleted should remember that tactics used against others can be turned against them when they are in the minority. It is in the best interest of all of us to support the rights of everyone to voice their opinion online whether we agree with it or not. Christians would be up in arms ready to boycott Fox News if they had deleted a Christian group, we should be consistent and be up in arms that they’ve deleted this group:

“MySpace refuses to undelete the group, although it never violated any terms of service,” said Bryan Pesta, Ph.D., the group’s moderator. “When the largest Christian group was hacked, MySpace’s Founder, Tom Anderson, personally restored the group, and promised to protect it from future deletions.”
“It is an outrage if Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and the world’s largest social networking site tolerate discrimination against atheists and agnostics– and if this situation goes unresolved I’ll have little choice but to believe they do,” said Greg Epstein, humanist chaplain of Harvard University. News Corporation, Murdoch’s global media corporation which also includes Fox News, purchased MySpace in 2005.
“My personal profile was deleted as well, and despite weeks of emails to customer service, plus a petition signed by 500 group members, MySpace won’t budge. I think these actions send a clear message to the 30 million godless people in America (and to businesses whose money was spent displaying ads on our group) that we are not welcome on MySpace,” said Pesta.

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