Re:Digg shuts down user submissions after every story on the...
by jaggederest on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @05:38PM
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Well, it's very simple: digg has two options, either fight, or shut down.
They've empowered their users, and their users have informed them in no uncertain terms that they will not accept censorship.
That doesn't mean that they have to fight, merely that if they want their community to remain largely as it is, they cannot censor. As the saying goes, they can't "have their cake and eat it too"
They've empowered their users, and their users have informed them in no uncertain terms that they will not accept censorship.
That doesn't mean that they have to fight, merely that if they want their community to remain largely as it is, they cannot censor. As the saying goes, they can't "have their cake and eat it too"