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"See also: NO MERCY - DIGG USERS OUT OF CONTROLMySpace has no love for man love.  Users can no longer set their sexual orientation to \"gay\" on the site, leading to an outcry from some members of the gay community.\nFrom what we can tell, the option to select Gay as your sexual orientation was removed from the website on Tuesday due to an apparent technical issue. \"Bi, Lesbian, Straight\" and even \"Not Sure\" remained as choices. Conspiracy theorists and gay sites were quick to point to Rupert Murdoch's self proclaimed homophobic views as the reason for this change.  MySpace responded with the below announcement from Tom (who reportedly prefers the ladies).  The message was posted on Wednesday, but as of Thursday morning Pacific Time, MySpace is still a no-gay zone:\nThe cause appears to be purely technical, and MySpace doesn't provide a good platform for these users to make complaints (unlike Digg), so there probably won't be much pressure applied to MySpace to get things sorted.  We're just glad it wasn't the \"straight\" option that got pulled: then we'd have homophobic pundits declaring that MySpace is turning our kids gay through the subtle use of preference pages."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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