Digg Not Allowing Free Speech?
As you can tell from my blog, I’ve been a bit distracted by Digg this weekend and I was becoming a big fan of the service. However, I was just reading the comments on one of my posts, “IE7: What does it have that Firefox doesn’t?” that had made it onto Digg and I noticed a comment from Lynn:
“Seems that the Anti-MS crowd got this removed from the homepage. These people are going to kill digg”
At first I thought this can’t be true, but I checked and she was right - it has been removed from the homepage and also doesn’t come up in digg’s search engine.
It made me realise that this had also happened to an article that I had dug myself “Serial Diggers and Gaming Digg” which got enough Diggs to get onto the homepage, but then also disappeared from the system.
Surely, Digg aren’t removing articles that they don’t like, or that portrays them or certain companies in a bad way? What’s the point of having a voting system and letting the users decide what goes on the homepage if they can over-rule it anytime they don’t like the content?
I think my love affair with Digg is beginnig to wane. I’m still going to Digg this article as I want to see what other Digg users think. I’m guessing though that it will probably get pulled once the Digg police see it.
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Comment by Kevin Burton's Feed Blog on 14 August 2005:
It looks like Digg isn't allowing free speech on their news voting system:As you can tell from my blog, I've been a bit distracted by Digg this weekend and I was becoming a big fan of the service…. These people are going to kill digg”At first I thou…
Comment by ~Angel~ on 14 August 2005:
Even though it's their website and they are free to do as they please, I hope this isn't true. Have you tried to contact anyone at Digg to find out why exactly it was removed?
Comment by Anonymous on 15 August 2005:
A democratic system like digg may have it's flaws, but it is a good system to get your stories out. Don't cry that digg is censoring you. Microsoft censors MSN spaces for profanity. That is one company censoring. Digg is a community of people that vote on your post. I suggest you get thicker skin. Many good stories get taken off the Homepage in digg. Fact of life. No one person at digg has censored you.
You take for granted your freedoms when you throw these words around like censorship. I was able to get to your digg story. How is that censorship?
Comment by Silicon Valley Sleuth on 15 August 2005:
Traffic to this website saw a nice jump earlier this week, and as it turns out, a website called Digg had a lot to do with it. Digg fixes what is wrong with Slashdot – humans still make the often