Digg will die trying rather than bow to a bigger company
Digg is probably the biggest and most popular social news site on the internet today. People has all the power to vote which of the news item deserves to be on the front page.
Today is not a usual day for Digg and it’s staff as people have engaged in “online social revolution” against Digg. It all started when the Hex code to crack the HD-DVD DRM was submitted to Digg. HD-DVD proponents sent letters asking Digg to immediately remove all news/submission about the HD-DVD crack.
In the past, Digg staff would remove news that links to pornography, racial hates, illegal downloads and other items that violates their terms of use. Today, they have decided to remove all submission about the crack to avoid facing shut down or interruption of Digg’s service. People started to submit multiple news linking to the HD-DVD crack. Some even posted off-topic comments on other news items about the HD-DVD crack. It’s all a mess until Kevin Rose spoke about the issue.
But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
Here, we see how “online revolution” ala “people power” can be very effective in making sure that information hiding will never prosper. People will always find a way to share information no matter how strict the rules are. People are very creative, period!
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