BellSouth Says It’s Not Blocking MySpace

By Mark Hachman BellSouth officials denied Friday that they had blocked consumer sites MySpace and YouTube, although customers in Florida and Te...


By Mark Hachman
BellSouth officials denied Friday that they had blocked consumer sites MySpace and YouTube, although customers in Florida and Tennessee said that they were unable to access them.BellSouth customers filled the Technorati blog Thursday and Friday, complaining that they had not been able to access YouTube, which stores and plays back user-generated videos, and MySpace, a social networking site for teens.

But Joe Chandler, director of media relations at BellSouth, said that he was unaware of his company blocking either site. “To my knowledge, we’re not blocking any site right now,” he said.

“We don’t block lawful sites,” Chandler added.

BellSouth customers remained suspicious, however. Some suspected the ISP was trying out a form of tiered system that network neutrality proponents have warned against, where certain sites would be blocked if they failed to pay for a certain quality of service.

“Well, I’ve been trying to log into MySpace since last night, but it simply wouldn’t let me in,” a user calling himself “Emmanuel” posted to his BellSouth blog. “I was using my laptop, which uses BellSouth for the ISP… Oddly enough, when I use it on the downstairs computer with AOL, I’m allowed in. Hmmm. I smell a rat. In any case, just a heads-up.”

BellSouth itself began reporting its own problems on Friday; according to messages posted by the company on its online help center, users who downloaded the latest version of its FastAccess tool, were, in some cases, being blocked from accessing the Internet at large.

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