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September 4, 2008
Digg.com Censors for Obama
Posted by Dave Blount at September 4, 2008 1:46 PM
It isn't just the dinosaur media that is willing to prostitute itself for the sake of installing Obama in the White House. Some corners of the new media are joining in — including Digg.com, according to this first-hand account from John of Big Bear Lake, California:
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).
In short, someone at Digg.com is resorting to underhanded tactics to suppress conservative views in an attempt to influence the election. Meet the new media, same as the old media — at least where left-leaning outfits like Digg.com are concerned.
