Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered
Alternet
A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives. An undercover investigation has exposed this effort, which has been in action for more than one year.
"The more liberal stories that were buried the better chance conservative stories have to get to the front page. I'll continue to bury their submissions until they change their ways and become conservatives."
-phoenixtx (aka vrayz)
Digg.com is the powerhouse of social media websites. It is ranked 50th among US websites by Alexa (117th in the world), by far the most influential social media site. It reached one million users in 2007 and likely has more than tripled that by this point. Digg generates around 25 million page views per month, over one third of the page views of the NY Times. Front page stories regularly overwhelm and temporarily shut down websites in a process called the "Digg Effect."
Crossposted from Right Of Assembly
This article includes a list of quite a few usernames of accused individuals, plus a description of their strategies. Actually, "trolls" isn't a strong enough word for these people. They are criminals. They stalk, harass, and generally terrorize progressive children posting movies, with the help of their parents, on YouTube (see video at the bottom of this post)
Of course, there couldn't possibly be anything remotely like this going on, on blogs. Especially really, really big, progressive blogs. Those people could not possibly be hanging around here.
Never happen.
Get me the bridge, Igor! I have a customer!
Cyber Terrorism Ring Revealed: A Case Study In The Depths Of Depravity
News Junkie Post
It should come as no huge surprise, when someone who you have seen around online, making rude (and some outright bizarre comments here and there across several online services, including Digg, YouTube, Blogger and so on), does something unsavory enough to merit that something showing up in the mainstream blogosphere, or possibly even come across it on the news wires. Perhaps something about them revealing something distasteful they have taken part in that goes beyond what even you thought they were capable of. However, you generally do not expect the something that comes up, to be that the person has just been exposed as being a front man for an organized cyber-terrorist/harassment group of the worst kind; a group known as The Yahweh Clan.
When I say "cyber-harassment", I am not talking about your average trolls. I am talking about serious, mentally deranged, stomach-wrenching, harassment. Numerous people attacked relentlessly for years, especially people who are the most vulnerable in nature, including children that are targeted in twisted schemes to intimidate them directly into doing what is demanded of them, use them as tools to attack others. Suicidal teens who are swarmed upon, as these people work hard to attempt to get the teen to "go through with it", then checking obituaries as a measure of their success at their endeavor. All done by a gang of people, adult people that we see at the grocery store, playing with their kids, or perhaps even a co-worker. People who get away with what they do because they are cloaked in anonymity. This was the case here, until now.
The video below was released by a group of volunteers who have been addressing this issue for years, beginning on the YouTube Service.