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September 4, 2008
Digg.com Censors for Obama
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 4, 2008 1:46 PM
Comments
No more Liberal Cool-Aide for you!
It's gonna get worse before it gets better, if it ever does.
At least we can all take delight that (old media) papers like the San FranFreakShow Commical and the New York Times keep loosing readership every day.
Posted by: Oiao at September 4, 2008 2:03 PM
In case it gets deleted:
"More delusional rantings from Josh at the leftist Huff-Po spam blog."
This was also in the comments:
"keymanjim2
"I smell fear. Liberal fear."
Good for both of you!
Posted by: KHarn at September 4, 2008 2:04 PM
It was this way two years ago when I dropped by once in a while. I found the same few posters everywhere at every hour of the night and day. I had maybe twenty minutes to check Digg for news. These people had hours to live on Digg.
Digg was highly gamed even then. Digg is an echo chamber. It can't get better.
Posted by: Fred at September 4, 2008 3:06 PM
I hope John from Big Bear finds MB and reads some of the comments.
John, this is their M.O. now. If you disagree, at best they "delete" you or, more likely, they'll not only go after you, but your kids (check out the Sarah Palin stuff on this site). They are gutless punks, and they represent "liberalism" now...a far cry from what that word meant in, say, the Kennedy years.
Posted by: matt at September 4, 2008 4:07 PM
Digg is a joke. I was banned there for using the term "libtard" in a post I made.
Posted by: Cleotis Scroggins at September 4, 2008 8:44 PM
I've been writing "I'm Kevin Rose and I approved this attack ad" on all of them.
KEEP IT UP!
Posted by: Matt Garrett at September 5, 2008 9:22 AM
Not just DIGG. I posted on the ABC site after McCains Saddleback and every post was pro-McCain and then they all suddenly they all disappeared along with the story. About 30 minutes later, a different story was posted with different headline and the posts were running for McCain slightly more and then most of those disappeared as well. Very very frightening.
Posted by: dlc at September 5, 2008 4:03 PM
