An online Boston Tea Party?
Digg.com, the user-powered news site, had a bit of a meltdown this week. CEO Jay Adelson posted a message explaining the site was deleting articles that included the newly cracked HD-DVD encryption key. Users rebelled, flooding the site with HD-DVD stories, and soon the entire front page was linking to the key. Rather than continue to fight, Digg's administrators decided to stick listen to the people -- and post the stories.
"You've made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company," Digg founder Kevin Rose wrote on his blog on the site. "We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying."
Digg blog
Forbes story on the kerfuffle
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1 comments about 'An online Boston Tea Party?'Hooray for Kevin Rose. I don't use Digg, nor do I much care about HDDVD, but I applaud Rose's reasoning and heroism. It's time for the Tea Party.
Posted by Catmoves at June 1, 2007 7:34 PM
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