Digg.com (Digg) is a Censorship Platform, Just Another Social Control Media/Network, Controlled by the Few

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 24, 2026

"Well, apparently I was right, because a few hours later my account appears to have been shadow banned - no explanation, just blocked from posting and my posts deleted. I guess somebody didn't like what I was saying, and "moderated" me away. As outlined above, I think a sitewide ban is a little overboard for the thought police to invoke without warning, but... it's their baby and I need to spend less time online anyway, no loss to me."

Once upon a time I was ranked 17^th overall at Digg.com (back when it was hugely popular and I was the leading promoter of GNU/Linux in the entire site). That was before social control media was "hot" and back when the 'Slashdot effect' had little real competition online, especially in the area of tech.

Someone sent us a temporary link, "in the queue for consideration at SN" (Soylent News, a sort of 'successor' of the original Slashdot):

We were advised to "note that he too had problems with Digg shadowbanning topics" (as it did, we covered it at the time - some time/s around 2006 or 2007).

We are not going to bother with any social control media and we were reminded "Digg sucked sweaty donkey balls, it consistently blocked and shadowbanned any activity around open standards, open formats, and especially the OpenDocument Format" (ODF for "openness, freedom and control" as its philosophy^*) when there were critical format wars going on. Microsoft cheated, bribed, even vandalised Wikipedia.

Digg later became a big booster of Apple and iPhones; that's because the "masters" (like Dorsey and then MElon at Twitter) were "fanbois" and they could steer trends in Digg.

"I hope it just goes away," we got told about Digg, "and had forgotten it ever existed until that popped up in the queue there..."

"JoeMerchant " speaks of "site moderation against griefers", but it ought to say "site moderation by griefers" (such as these). █

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^* "The philosophy behind the menagerie of the many slightly incompatible MSO formats" we got told, was "closedness, lock-in, and restrictions."