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The DIGG Bury Brigade; news suppression conspiracy
Topic Started: Aug 6 2010, 10:40 AM (213 Views)
Axtremus
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Article: http://blogs.alternet.org/oleoleolson/2010/08/05/massive-censorship-of-digg-uncovered/

Apparent there is a group of people armed with multiple accounts who systematically "vote down" news that they don't like. :shrug:
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Jethro
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Huh?
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Rick R
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No Way!

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Al Gore
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Thanks to President Obama that could never happen here.
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HRC
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I helped.
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Axtremus
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To the TNCR Bumping Puppets -- thank you for all the love! :D
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Kincaid
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Looks like they stole a page out of the community organizer's play book.

Well shame on them.
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George K
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Interesting. When the left has a complaint, it's all over the blogosphere.

Why didn't this get the same attention?

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/09/diggcom_in_the.html
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I've had a digg.com user account (bbjohnnyt) in good standing for a couple of years ago. Even though the digg community is dominated by liberal members, I've always voiced my opinion by commenting on digg posts. Since yesterday, I got tired that virtually 100% of Sarah Palin stories that made the digg front page were attacks from the liberal media and blogs. So, since yesterday afternoon, I started commenting on almost every anti-Palin digg post with something like the followi…

Balancing out the idiotic liberal blog spam...
PALIN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2016!!! (after McCain's two terms).

About an hour ago, someone at digg.com deleted my "bbjohnnyt" account. When I tried to log back in, I just get an "Your account is invalid" message. None of my comments were offensive (except to liberals) or violated their terms of service. After some poking around, I also discovered that they removed every comment I made in the last two days! But they fortunately missed deleting one comment…

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Josh_Silver_Palin_GOP_Attack_Media_A_Look_at_The_Playbo

If my comment is still there on this digg posting, you can click on my "bbjohnnyt" name and you'll then see it takes you to an error page (since my account was deleted).


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Kincaid
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Appears bbjohnnyt has been reinstated.
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Luke's Dad
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:snooze:

If you go on Digg, or any other similar site, you will find several groups like the one listed pulling the same crap. Some lean right, some lean left. It's an ongoing war from both sides. With both sides essentially cancelling each other out. It's a non-story, and this blogger has way too much freakin time on his hands and is hoping to find something to compare with the JournoList scandal. This doesn't even come close.
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The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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