Growing Censorship Concerns at Digg

I find site rivalries boring, but growing concerns over Digg "censorship" have been submitted steadily for the last few months. Today two such stories were submitted so numerous that I had little choice but to post. The first claims that Digg is the editor's playground- it explains how a few users control Digg, and that it's not really the 'Democracy' that they claim it to be. Personally I think this is all totally within the rights of their editors to choose content however they like. But it's less pleasant when combined with accounts getting banned for posting content critical of digg, and watching other content getting removed for being critical of sponsors (also, here is Kevin Rose's reply).

Comments

As if Slashdot didn't have its own concerns?

[dhakbar]

nt

aren't editors supposed to edit?

[spir0]

Too many whiny bitches think that services on the net should be free-for-all.

When you're playing in someone else's sandbox, you have to play by their rules. While I agree that articles getting dugg by lots of the same people in a row is suspicious, there are other avenues for bringing these concerns to light. What do you think is going to happen when you log on to someone's site and start ragging it? You're certainly not going to make friends and influence people.

If I ran digg, or anything like it, I would be banning bitches left right and center for being whiny gits. If you don't like it, GET THE FUCK OUT. It's not your given right to use the page. Start up something better if you don't like it.