Any mention of the word 'tinyurl' in a Myspace message or bulletin is automatically stripped out and replaced with ".." instead. Weird. I'm not here to cry first amendment rights or anything silly like that... it's a commercial site and they can do what they want. But it's annoying.

For those that don't know, TinyURL is a web service that takes long, unweildy URLs and shortens them to a short string of characters instead.

I remember there was some beef in the past with Myspace censoring YouTube URLs. There was also talk of bypassing that by using TinyURL links as redirects. Was this fallout from that?

Is it competing ad-revenue market share with TinyURL?

Is it an attempt to protect people from being directed to offensive or malicious external sites?

Whatever the reason, it's annoying. They're purposely mangling URLs and breaking links. Lame.