I can’t help but notice the latest firestorm news of Digg.com doing the hideous acts of deleting and banning articles & comments from users about the HD-DVD’s AACS encryption key hack code. At first, I thought to myself, “What’s the big deal? Digg is trying to protect the readers and themselves against ill-intent messages such as hate-related or pornographic posts.” But the mobpeople seemed to think it’s about Digg admins going crazy with censorship. I’m not about to judge them the same way since I wasn’t one of those people who got banned. Heck, I didn’t even join the mass spam of digg site in protest of the censorship. The whole thing seemed to have been blown out of proportion. However, watching from the sidelines, I think the publicity may turn out ok for all parties involved:
- Digg gets free publicity from other news sites (it’s in Google News).
- HD-DVD gets free coverage by possibly “fast tracking” wider use of it (read: piracy).
- The tech geeks get to vent out their Cyber-Frustration™ at digg, MPAA, DVD-forum, etc. (Not to mention something to really blog about!)
In perspective, I think there’s a great benefit in causing such a ruckus like this. It shows that the people’s voice is still king, and democracy is still alive — and kicking. It also made the day more interesting, watching the people in action.
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LK
// May 8, 2007 at 8:25 am
This whole thing reminds me of the scene where the angry town people storm Dr. Frankenstein’s castle with torches and clubs in hand to go after “the monster”. Mob mentality: they were wrong then about the monster, they’re wrong now about Digg’s “censorship”. Just my $0.02.
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