Digg.com people: does this ring true to your experience? (And for anyone interested in censorship or left/right politics)

I can’t say anything about Digg.com as I have never used them. I do know I was blocked from several liberal sites because I defended the conservative view on them. I have also been blocked from a couple conservative sites when I defended liberal views on them.

I don’t think either side of the issue has any business throwing stones until they clean up their own act.

I believe it comes from a fear that if they allow people to openly question their stated views, they feel they will weaken their standing within the community. On both sides of the issue, I feel many bloggers would rather be popular with their peers than have an honest debate.

@WestRiverrat, GA. I discount or avoid sites on both sides of the fence that practice political/opinion censorship, but never really articulated it that way. Thanks.

It’s rather sad. Right wingers use such tactics all the time. Then they whip themselves into a frothing rage sure that ACORN is rigging elections and George Soros singlehandedly runs the world to usheer in world communism. I guess it’s that they think liberals, being the ultimate eveil, must be far better at dirty tricks than they are, and so they must do even more to compensate. I really don’t get it.

Awesome piece…..these bastards and their ilk are hard at work all over the net, on newspaper comment blogs, etc. It all has the stink of a national Rove operation. Many of these people spent so much time at this, I;m they were getting paid. This and similar groups have been gaming YahooNews for years. AnswerBag had a mean cadre that was extremely active during the runup to the Presidential election during which many of the more profane Reichmembers were banned for life, but they came right back. Since AB got rid of the Down Rate button, most the vindictive little pricks moved on because they can no longer control whose opinion stays on the front page without actually voting for something. At least two of the worst from AB came here during the exodus last December, but soon got bored and went back. I think they found Fluther too small and sane, nobody was taking their bait and there was no way for them to anonymously show disapproval. One of them was also active in DP and is on the list in this article.

Yep, the criminal Right never ceases to find opportunities to embarrass itself. But they’ll be back.

@Espiritus_Corvus It’s becoming more and more aparent that the radical right is actually a Fascist movement. Their propaganda techniques and efforts to suppress dissent are right out of the Joseph Goebbels playbook.

I know, I read his diaries some time ago. Beyond Machiavelli. Rove is the legacy. And now Rove’s students are growing into their own and, as you know, each generation adds to the playbook. I really believe that they will continue until they become so abhorrent to even their own (like the DP members that had to be told to bury an article even if they “agreed with it or liked the member who submitted it”) that they will eventually be ignored to death by the populace. (I’d prefer a re-enactment of the night of the long knives, but that only resulted in the political equivalent of a super infection.) If these guys aren’t reduced to ignominy by popular demand, I really don’t want to live here anyway. My God, what do they have to do to incur the general enmity of the masses that they deserve?

Personally, I am jaded and cynical enough to honestly belive that most people are douchebags, period. No reason required as it’s a natural state of being. Anything remotely political or religious merely shines a spotlight on their douchebaggery as it provides a way for them to demonstrate their baggitude.

BTW, to all of those people who think that I am a douchebag, I am not; I am an asshole!

@jerv You may be on to something. GA