

A Joplin, Missouri man filed a federal lawsuit last week against MySpace for violating his "freedom to use the social networking site in peace."

Brian Mora alleges in hiscomplaint (.pdf) that MySpace deleted his account twice, in October and November, on the false grounds that he'd violated the MySpace terms of service. In truth, he says, he was kicked off the site "because an administrator ... simply disliked something displayed on the petitioner's profile." His case is filed in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Missouri.

Mora's seeking a court order to force MySpace to stop interfering with his "freedom of lawful speech and expression" as well as his support of certain, intriguingly-unnamed political candidates. Elsewhere, in a message board post, Mora vows that when he wins his suit and owns MySpace-parent company News Corp. he'll move Fox News' coverage further to the right.

__Update: __ Listening Post reports that MySpace just added the following sentence to its terms-of-service:

"MySpace expressly reserves the right to remove your profile and/or restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to any part of MySpace Services if MySpace determines, in its sole discretion, that you pose a threat to MySpace and/or its Users."

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