tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24358030.post7985240683883550665..comments2020-02-03T20:28:14.663+05:30Comments on Orange Slush: How Digg should have handled the HD-DVD fiascoNiranjanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03146215553240569459noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24358030.post-75705268150741972232007-05-16T17:39:00.000+05:302007-05-16T17:39:00.000+05:30Never did I suggest during the course of this post...Never did I suggest during the course of this post that Digg should not have deleted the posts or not censored content. <BR/><BR/>Here is what I said "Removing content from a website that if left alone, could potentially lead to a long and financially burdening legal hassle is common sense. I don't think I have too many objections to that."<BR/><BR/>Now, the idea behind this post was to condemn the manner in which folks at Digg decided to sanitize their site. If they had taken time to let users know about the legal issues they would face if the posts on HD-DVD key are left alone, let users "explicitly" know that they are deleting those posts and put a small note adding how sorry they were to resort to censorship in an otherwise free (as in free speech) social network. If only they had done these things before deleting the posts, am sure I would call that mature handling. It's not sucking up to AACS and its not betraying your loyal users. <BR/><BR/>To sum up, the issue was never about deleting posts as far as am concerned, it never was. The whole issue was the opaque and underhand manner in which deleting posts and banning accounts was handled.Niranjanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03146215553240569459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24358030.post-16634827186267623122007-05-03T18:30:00.000+05:302007-05-03T18:30:00.000+05:30Digg.com is far from a true democracy. You didn't...Digg.com is far from a true democracy. You didn't vote for the people in charge, they put themselves there, and I perfectly understand that they wouldn't want to have the legal problems coming at them, with all users of digg.com sitting happy in their homes without a care in the world. What the admins of Digg did was right, and if the users didn't like it, they have their democratic right to move along to another site and get them in trouble. When it comes down to legal issues, the owners of the site are, in the end, responsible for all content on their site. <BR/><BR/>Thus, they can remove content as they please. And if people want to keep shoving the same content up there, after knowing that it was deleted, then they have no reason to complain about the "break down of the democracy." <BR/><BR/>The internet is NOT a democracy. <BR/><BR/>-NyxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com