If you were one of the 34,000+ friends that I had on myspace profile before, I did not delete you individually, but rather had to cancel that whole profile. About 2 months ago, I had warned all my previous MySpace friends that I might need to delete my MySpace account because of inappropriate ads powered by Google. Those ads are in direct conflict with the HappySlip brand and especially misrepresentative of Filipina women. Here is a screenshot of the latest.
MySpace did try to find solutions to this problem, but ultimately are bound by certain legal agreements with Google. So I decided to go ahead and cancel the account. After finding that anyone could claim the myspace url for happyslip - I went ahead and reserved the url again to direct people as to where the community has gone.
I did not want to subject my prior friends to more of the degrading ads which is why I will not build on that new clean profile. (since the ads are programmed to follow the name of HappySlip on myspace) Because I don’t want to contribute to more visual impressions of that type of advertising, I will not add friends to that profile. I will rather communicate with you here on this site, where I can control what type of ads show up.
The original post on my site where I warned about closing my account can be found here.
According to a Human Protection Law enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines, it is unlawful “To establish or carry on a business which has for its purpose the matching of Filipino women for marriage to foreign nationals either on a mail order basis or personal introduction”. It is unlawful “To solicit, enlist or in any manner attract or introduce any Filipino woman to become a member in any club or association whose objective is to match women for marriage to foreign nationals either on a mail order basis or through personal introduction for a fee”. This law was enacted to “take measures to protect Filipino women from being exploited in utter disregard of human dignity in their pursuit of economic upliftment.”
Thank you for understanding my conviction regarding this issue.
