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The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Internet Censorship - A Digg "Bury Brigade" Case Study : Zaphu - 6 views

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    Points to a disproportionately large number of posts about the political candidate Ron Paul that were buried on Digg, in support of the premise of that so-called "bury brigades" exist on Digg, groups of users who vote against articles en masse when they don't like them, "philosophically". This should surprise absolutely nobody who is familiar with Digg's basic operating principles and has been online for more than ten minutes in his life, but sometimes people need evidence in support of the obvious. Putting the feeedom to be heard on a topic to a vote - how do people expect that to work out?
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The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

ISPs Yield to Copyright Terrorism - Greg Howley dot com - Blog of Wonder - 0 views

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    Report of an experiment done in Europe in which sites were created, and then meritless copyright complaints made about said sites, using easily created hotmail addresses. Free Speech did not fare well.
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The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

The Ban Hammer falls again over at Digg - Social News Central - 0 views

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    Warning: Some profanity at the other end of the link, in the comments section, which should be seen at being a part of this post. A list of some of Digg's most active users, all of them recently banned, appears, along with a message from "Jen" at Digg explaining that this is because of script usage. As somebody points out in at least one of these cases, the facts don't support the charge - the user in question had hardly been posting at all during the time when script usage was alleged. In the audio interview on the previous site bookmarked, Zaibatsu discussed the issue of new diggers having a hard time being heard because established diggers had such an unfair advantage, going on to say that there were better ways of dealing with the problem than chasing off the users who had done so much to build that site. We are left with the impression that the Digg staff is more than willing to trump up meritless charges in order to do just that. Of course, you get to see the obligatory troll show up and play the "I'm not listening" game, and somebody drop by to drop a little mild antisemitism, but on quick inspection I found that the reasonable users seemed to be in the majority. That's always a pleasant surprise.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Policing Porn Is Not Part of Job Description - 0 views

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