Free speech on "My" Space?

So, whose space is it after all, when Myspace - or any other blog - decides to take your blog down?

This article informs us that MySpace took down the blog of Tom Stephens once it understood he was a suspect in the serial murder case in Ipswich. Stephens has subsequently been released, as another suspect has been charged with the murders.

Yet we must ask "What about Tom Stephens own rights to free speech?" The removal of this man's Myspace page was surely an infringement of his own rights, and a tool for him to communicate with the world. Removing it at such a crucial time for him surely added to the trauma for him. I believe it was grossly irresponsible of MySpace to remove the blog.

What must it be like to be accused of the murders of your friends? And then to have your voice taken away, and access to support of other friends taken away?

The MySpace entries would never have hampered any police inquiries. No person's freedom of speech can, when there's fair judicial process. None of it was anything to do with evidence with regard to the case.

Now someone's made a fake MySpace copy of Stephen's weblog. Will MySpace be removing that soon?

Somehow I doubt it.

The Media has yet again cocked up.