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Posted on 05.02.07 by Thomas L. Knapp
“The world’s most popular technology news website was crashed today after a digital revolt led by its users. Digg.com was unavailable this afternoon after users began attacking the site after it censored stories reporting how to hack high-definition DVD discs. Digg is a so-called ’social news’ site that publishes stories and ranks them according to votes by its users. It accounts for 1 per cent of the total internet traffic in the US market. When the DVD hacking story was taken down, users rebelled and began re-submitting the stories by the thousands. The site soon collapsed under the weight of the attack. But Digg founder Kevin Rose, who made the decision to pull the reports off the site, later joined users in agreeing to not allow censorship in the future.” (05/01/07) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23oe5c Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | Report Bad Link Bookmark this post in Furl or Del.icio.us | |






