[Azselendor]

I wasn't saying you can hold myspace responsible for user-generated content, I was saying it's silly and impractical and frivolous to do so.

And it's very true about loop holes in the law. One lawyer once said "For every crime, there must be an exception"

Of course, tobacco lost their suits because they were deliberately selling an addictive substance that killed their customer base off, and marketed to children among other crimes, and attempted to bury said evidence.

Eating fast food is a choice in favor of laziness and sloth. While they sell a hopelessly disgusting product, they aren't using highly addictive substances, just preying on our own ability to be lazy turds. When people sued them, they used the tobacco lawsuit format and lost. They could've sued on the fact some of their food-products aren't even made from food.

Now as for message filtering, I don't see that as being viable as it can generate numerous false-positives.

Now what myspace can do is implement a system of

1.) tracking and storing all of that data for evidence in case something does happen. This could be used for data-filtering in the future if such technology can be made viable.
2.) create a system where people can seek help from myspace and/or out abusive users and user harassment without fear of reprisals.
3.) work with state and federal authorities to craft legislation to help prosecute people who abuse others on line.