Digg Users Unite And Rebel
Digg.com, a Web site that lets anyone post and rank news stories, found that out this week when its members revolted over what they saw as an effort to censor them. It began when Digg.com’s founder Kevin Rose banned members from mentioning a software code that helps online pirates make bootlegged copies of high-def movies. After that, all hell broke loose.
In a blog post Tuesday night, Rose bowed to his site’s readers. “After seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear,” he wrote. “You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company…effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.” Rose even stressed his solidarity with the membership by posting the key in the title of his post.
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