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MySpace today announced that it will work together with the Commission for Presidential Debates (CPD) to broadcast the upcoming presidential debates in the U.S. live on the social networking site. MySpace and the CPD also created MyDebates.org, where users can learn more about the issues and candidates through various quizzes and videos.

Maybe the most interesting feature of the site, however, is that it (anonymously) collects all the data from users who take the "issue quizzes" and then displays those in a well designed set of statistics.

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On the popular social networking site MySpace.com, you can find pictures of almost anything, including violence and nudity. But WAVE 3's Scott Harvey reports that one Indiana family is outraged after the pictures they posted, in memory of their son, were said to be too offensive and deleted. WAVE 3 now wants them to have a place to tell their story.

McComb's son, BJ, was severely burned in a house fire when he was only 18 months old."He had infections and all kinds of stuff going on and he fought through all of it and made it for seven years after the fire," said Karlyn McComb, BJ's mother.

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Legislation to ban kids' access to myspace.com and facebook.com in public libraries is picking up steam in Congress. If passed, libraries that allow that access could be stripped of Federal funding. The bill is called D.O.P.A. The Delete Online Predators Act. It was introduced Federal law required all libraries to filter out pornographic websites in computers that kids could access.

The director of the Rancho Mirage Public Library tells KPSP Local 2 that while they have a strict policy against allowing kids to access porn on computers, kids are permitted to have full access to myspace.com and facebook.com. The American Library Association has joined the fight against the proposed new law calling it an unacceptable invasion of privacy.

For it's part myspace.com has recently taken big steps to protect kids from predators including assigning about one third it's entire workforce to deal with security and customer care.

Channel Five has struck a deal with MySpace to launch a youth-focused version of Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky.

The deal, which Five claims is the first between a UK news broadcaster and a social networking website, will see the launch of a co-branded daily news bulletin on MySpaceTV.

Kaplinsky will present The MySpace News Bulletin, which will be recorded each weekday after the 3pm TV update on Five and posted online "within two hours" for MySpace users to view. It will be between three and four minutes long.

The bulletin will sit on a newly created Five News MySpaceTV channel, www.myspacetv.com/fivenews, that launches today.

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