Is Digg becoming another vehicle for censorship and elitist agendas?

[mandy]

I've been pondering my stance on Digg recently. When I saw Christian Mezei's Unofficial FAQ regarding the Digg algorithm, I began to ponder the entire concept of social media, especially given the recent controversy surrounding which content makes the front page, and which gets buried...

If Social Media is just going to become another vehicle for censorship and elitist agendas, then you can count me out. I've no interest in becoming part of Discrimination 2.0, even if it means sacrificing page clicks or name recognition, if membership requres that I cater to the socialite bureaucracy of Digg by avoiding topics whimsically decided to be "unsavory" to their sensitive reading agendas.

Perhaps I'm one of the few who actually still believes in free speech, even if I don't agree what someone has to say...

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