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).

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Re:This should be fun

[Achromatic1978]

Clinton was handing 'em out like candy in 2001.

Most presidents do. You may wish to read this before whining about Clinton. Further:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardon ed_by_Bill_Clinton
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardon ed_by_George_W._Bush

GWB's pardon list reads like a laundry list for a 'friend of the rich/big business/white collar crime':

• misapplication of mortgage funds
• embezzlement of US Postal Service funds
• income tax evasion
• transmission of wagering information
• money laundering
• mail fraud
• failure to report monetary instruments
• false statement on a loan application
• illegal gambling business
• conspiracy to file false tax returns
• aiding and abetting a false statement on a loan application

That just reads like someone helping out his good ol' boys.