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Just when I (and many others) were ready to give up on Digg as a purely user-driven social experiment, due to their repeated story and comment deletions, Kevin Rose steps up and listens to the community:
Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
by Kevin Rose at 9pm, May 1st, 2007 in Digg Website
Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts...
In building and shaping the site I’ve always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We’ve always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community. Occasionally we step in to remove stories that violate our terms of use (eg. linking to pornography, illegal downloads, racial hate sites, etc.). So today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.
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.
Digg on,
Kevin
While I am glad that Digg is sticking to its vision of letting the users vote with their feet (and mouse) it's a shame that the company has been forced into this position. I would like to think it was NOT due to the number of people considering using ad blocking on the site, and restricting their revenue. I would like to think it was the thought of valued users leaving in droves, and the though of doing right by them.
Anyway, it's going to make great news for a few months to come! I am sure if push came to shave the users of Digg would be more than willing to fund any sort of legal campaign against the MPAA, am I right?
Posted by:
Lylepalooza at May 1, 2007 11:24 PM
Muslix64/Roger Strong, the guy who originally bypassed AACS, must be happy. With everyone posting his crack and later versions, maybe now they won't go after him. His identity was outed on Digg, Wikipedia and elsewhere:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Advanced_Access_Content_System&oldid=108655339
(Under "Concerns of experts". This is a link to an earlier version. A paragraph was removed from the current version to protect him.)
Posted by: Tampa Fan at May 1, 2007 11:49 PM
The matrix is all around you neo. The below numbers prove ABC's Lost is really the Matrix part 4.
09
F9
11
02
9D
74
E3
5B
D8
41
56
C5
63
56
88
C0
Posted by: Robert at May 2, 2007 09:26 AM
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