Users of MySpace are complaining that Fox is censoring content on MySpace. You may remember that Fox bought MySpace. Around the same time, Fox announced a number of moves and products indicating that “they got it” with regard to the Internet. Kareem (now a Fox Interactive Media employee) wrote some pretty glowing things about these moves on his blog.

FIM is in an interesting position, because as far as I can tell, they don’t seem to be getting much interference from their TV and movie businesses. At least, not right now. That pressure is really the key. While I love working at the Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG or DIG), it’s not really an “Internet company” in the same vein as Google or Yahoo or even MSN. We are first and foremost an organization that helps the core media businesses do their thing (whatever that may be) online. We end up working on similar products as MSN or Yahoo or Google, but we come at it from a completely different angle.

I don’t have a good sense of where FIM is on this divide. I wonder if they’re at the point now where, because they’re so small, the TV and film business units just don’t care about them. DIG at Disney went through a similar phase where our revenues, impressive as they might be for a startup, were not even a blip compared to the revenues from TV and film businesses. When companies start counting revenues in the billions, they don’t care as much about the millions from this little business. When the Internet revenue starts showing up on their radar, the instinct is to protect and grow the billions and not the millions. It’s probably true of most industries, and I’m curious as to how FIM will react to those pressures as they start colliding with the old line business units.

I wonder if the MySpace thing is a sign of that struggle. I’m also curious where they’ll end up in a few years. They are making moves that see like they get it, but will that stand up in the face of the old line business’ pressure?

Update: News.com reports that MySpace.com may have banned another site. This time it’s Revver.com, another video sharing site. Welcome, FIM, to web 1.0.