Danger at Digg
I was reading Neil’s excellent post about censorship at digg and it made me wonder about a problem I had with digg.
About a month or two ago I submitted a story concerning the “church” of scifientology and their continued effort towards censorship of an unreleased film. The story received 2000 diggs very quickly and became the number 1 story on digg.com and remained there for quite a while. After about an hour I hit refresh on my browser and the story had completely vanished from the front page! I did a quick search and found that it didn’t appear in the search results either, I thought that it was buried but confused why it didn’t even show in the searches. I light heartedly guess that they censored it on the request of the scifientologists, but now I am thinking this may be true…
Let’s look at some recent buries… Go Here and press “Control + F” then type “scientolo”. Keep clicking next to see all the buries revolving around scientology (which is a LARGE amount)… all are identified as inaccurate or spam. hmmm.
Anyway, I just thought I would share my thoughts… oh and if you want to see a bit of reporting on the bullshit of scifientology visit xenu.net.
May 15th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
That’s pretty freakin crazy man. It seems that Digg has struggled with the content it … points to, especially in recent times the whole HD-DVD code thing or whatever. But where I could see why Digg would struggle with the HD-DVD thing, this (imho) is a lot less understandable.
May 15th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Sorry for the extra post, but do you think that Digg buried those stories, or was it other users?…Like Scientology fanatics?
May 15th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
[...] just read a post over at Coopreme about Digg seemingly burying stories relating to Scientology. I’m not going to go into all [...]
May 15th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
well I’m not sure… but for my story to completely disappear is odd…
May 16th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
slashdot doesnt do that shit
May 17th, 2007 at 6:30 am
ahhh tidrock… nice to see you here at cooooooopreme!
May 18th, 2007 at 11:42 am
So you have that nice, big empty blogroll over there… Interested in a blogroll exchange?
May 18th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
lol i kno, i just haven’t got around to it! but i try to stay away from 2 way link exchanges…