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Title: Digg This: Conservatives Accused of Censoring Liberal Stories on Digg Website
Post by: Ptarmigan on August 10, 2010, 11:01:15 PM
Digg This: Conservatives Accused of Censoring Liberal Stories on Digg Website
ABC News
By KI MAE HEUSSNER
Aug. 6, 2010

A group of conservative members of the popular link-sharing website Digg may be deliberately suppressing liberal stories submitted to the site.

According to the online magazine AlterNet, a group of "Digg Patriots" has "censored hundreds of users, dozens of websites, and thousands of stories from the largest social media website in the world."

AlterNet said an undercover investigation revealed that the group of about one hundred conservative members is able to bury 90 percent of articles by certain websites and stories within three hours of their submission.

After learning about the story Thursday, Digg founder Kevin Rose tweeted, "we're looking into this."

ABC News-Digg This: Conservatives Accused of Censoring Liberal Stories on Digg Website (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/digg-conservatives-accused-censoring-liberal-stories-wiki-website/story?id=11341878)

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Censorhip my ass! Digg is not a government site. Besides the legacy media does the same thing. Cuts both ways. Someone call the Whambulance!!!!! Anyways, Digg is full dumb morons.
Title: Re: Digg This: Conservatives Accused of Censoring Liberal Stories on Digg Website
Post by: Chris_ on August 10, 2010, 11:07:58 PM
I saw this on MetaFilter earlier this week... I can't bring myself to take any of it seriously.  Digg is all about censorship... one side promotes stories and the other side buries them.  Isn't that the whole point to Digg (other than making money for the owners)?
Title: Re: Digg This: Conservatives Accused of Censoring Liberal Stories on Digg Website
Post by: Ptarmigan on August 10, 2010, 11:09:35 PM
Quote from: chris_ on August 10, 2010, 11:07:58 PM
I saw this on MetaFilter earlier this week... I can't bring myself to take any of it seriously.  Digg is all about censorship... one side promotes stories and the other side buries them.  Isn't that the whole point to Digg (other than making money for the owners)?

Yes, that is true. Digg epitomizes the worst of Web 2.0.
Title: Re: Digg This: Conservatives Accused of Censoring Liberal Stories on Digg Website
Post by: thundley4 on August 11, 2010, 07:13:00 AM
I'd bew more concerned about the liberal bias at wikipedia, since a lot of people actually trust it as a source of information and facts.
Title: Re: Digg This: Conservatives Accused of Censoring Liberal Stories on Digg Website
Post by: Ptarmigan on August 11, 2010, 07:54:24 PM
Quote from: thundley4 on August 11, 2010, 07:13:00 AM
I'd bew more concerned about the liberal bias at wikipedia, since a lot of people actually trust it as a source of information and facts.

Yeah. Wikipedia said that willow ptarmigans are no longer Alaska's state bird, it is the puffin. No source was ever cited and I even checked and nothing turned up.
Title: Re: Digg This: Conservatives Accused of Censoring Liberal Stories on Digg Website
Post by: DefiantSix on August 12, 2010, 11:03:05 PM
Quote from: Ptarmigan on August 11, 2010, 07:54:24 PM
Yeah. Wikipedia said that willow ptarmigans are no longer Alaska's state bird, it is the puffin. No source was ever cited and I even checked and nothing turned up.

 :o A ptarmigan tried to do WHAT!?!?!? to Willow Palin in Alaska?   :o

Dude.  Seriously.
Title: Re: Digg This: Conservatives Accused of Censoring Liberal Stories on Digg Website
Post by: crockspot on August 13, 2010, 12:58:32 AM
How long before this story gets buried at digg? lol
Title: Re: Digg This: Conservatives Accused of Censoring Liberal Stories on Digg Website
Post by: Ptarmigan on August 13, 2010, 06:37:11 PM
Quote from: DefiantSix on August 12, 2010, 11:03:05 PM
:o A ptarmigan tried to do WHAT!?!?!? to Willow Palin in Alaska?   :o

Dude.  Seriously.

Willow Palin was named after willow ptarmigan. No connection.