MAJOR UPDATE:
My faith has been restored in Digg. Here is a reply from the creator of Digg:
Hi All -- One of our site admins just notified me of this story.
Just to clarify and squash the conspiracy theory, the user that submitted this story (and their multiple accounts) was deleted due to spamming the site and racist comments. When we delete a user it removes all of their diggs, submissions, and comments.
Sorry for the trouble - feel free to re-submit the story (or the mirror if the duplicate check gets it).
Kevin
It appears that when a user is removed it take about 15 to an hour for all the posts, comments, and replys to be removed from didg's servers.
Original Story:
Today I went onto Digg and click on an article entitle '"Hillary 1984" Creator Exposed .... Then Fired'. It turns out that a guy who made a You Tube video about the senator belonged to company that is producing some content for Obama. The video he made was negitive and political about Hillary and thus was against his employeer's policy to produce.
Now I could write on about how this restricts an individuals freedom of speech and/or how this seems like a conspiracy between the Obama and Clinton campaign. But the real story is that it was the top story on Digg but was quickely removed from Digg's system about 10 minutes later. 'Do you have any proof of this' you may ask? Sure, a picture is worth a thousand words:
This show that the article was on on Digg and at the top of the ranking with 29 comments. But if you tried to click on the comments you got a screen that said 0 comments found. Click Here if you want to try to get to the original story. Now you get an error page. Also, here's further evidence that this really happened:
You can see the original story here and the dugg mirror of the story here. So this proves from two independent sources that a story was removed for no given reason on Digg. This makes one wonder if Digg has a politcal agenda instead of existing as a purely democratic system.
Updates:
UPDATE 1:00 PM EST: I have posted this page to Digg. So if want leave some comments feel free to do so here.
Update 1:10 EST: This page was updated with better grammer and some spelling fixes. What do you expect it was made in 5 minutes + graphics. This page will be expand and corrected as needed.
Update 1:15 EST - A user on Digg by the name of wooismsaid the following about this page:
Sound's like horse crap to me. When exactly did you see this approaching #1? I never saw it, I have been looking all day. Perhaps it was denoted as spam, innacurate, or otherwise buried? Have you searched for it in buried? We only have your work to go on.. that's not enough evidence.
The following is my reply:
Excellent points, here are my counter points:
- The page that is linked above has screen captures of the article on both Digg and Dugg Mirror.
- The page also includes links to the original story on Digg which now produces errors.
- You can also, for the time being, still see the article on Dugg Mirror.
- I searched for the story on under buried and is not there. Here is a link to the search: http://tinyurl.com/2vsar2
Thank you for all who have already dugg and commented on my post.
Update : Mar. 14 - For anyone interested I posted a bit more information on my personally blog here along with a couple of ideas on how to get around this.