Digg Caught Red-Handed Censoring Ron Paul Stories

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, January 17, 2008

The self-proclaimed ‘digital democracy’ Digg.com has been caught red-handed artificially suppressing and censoring Ron Paul stories by expunging them from the website with just one bury, despite the fact that thousands of other Digg users are voting the stories up.

Digg allows users to vote stories up (digg them) or vote them down (bury them). The content of Digg’s main page, which receives millions of readers a day, is decided upon this apparently democratic system…..

…For months allegations have been flying around concerning how stories about Ron Paul, which routinely receive well over a thousand diggs, rarely make it to the main page on Digg as a “popular” item.

It has now emerged that Digg has either directly implemented a policy to expunge Ron Paul stories from the website or that it has empowered “super-users” the influence to eliminate Paul stories with just one bury, even if the story has thousands of diggs from other users…..

In it’s preamble Digg claims, “You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online….. ”

Full Article: prisonplanet.com

Rat Says: Read that last sentence again. If they didn’t promote their site in this way then Alex Jones would have no beef, but they are selling themselves as an “honest broker.” What we have here is fraud people. Digg is no small player, they have more traffic than Drudge. Rat smells legal troubles for somebody.

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