You stone your mom, whip your sis, mutilate your kid; but be my friend
For the original post on Digg: “Our Swedish correspondent LN sent me a link to a Norwegian web page featuring a new song by the singer Åge Aleksandersen. LN translated only the song lyrics for me, and based on those I thought the song had to be a spoof, an ironic and deadpan takeoff on Norwegian dhimmitude. So I wrote to Kepiblanc … and asked him what he thought……”
Here’s a copy of the comment I posted on Digg:
OMG: This politically correct nonsense has to stop. We do NOT have to be friends with someone who thinks it alright to injury or kill anyone. Would it be alright to a friend with Hitler? He only killed disabled people, the old, and the Jews. Should the citizens in the North of the United States have been best buds with pre-Civil War slave owners who kill their ‘property’ on a whim?
No, lets bring SOME common sense back into our lives. We fought wars against men who had these horrible views on the treatment of humanity. I think not accepting Muslim’s who believe in ’stoning your mom, whip your sis, mutilate your kid’ as my friend is the least of what I should do.
Unusual Alliance Fights .XXX Creation
From the original article posted on Digg: “Online pornographers and religious groups are in a rare alliance as a key Internet oversight agency nears a decision on creating a virtual red-light district through a “.xxx” Internet address.”
I think there should be more first level domains, period. I don’t think any particle mandate a particular group SHOULD use a specific domain. I can see mandates that only certain groups can use certain domains. Like I shout see a regular website on .mobi domain. Nor should I see a website about Coke Cola on a proposed coke.person domain. Otherwise religious groups may eventually on be able to create websites on .god.
The Digg Misunderstanding: Digg Censores Politcal Story
From and article I originally posted of Digg: “A story entitled “Hillary 1984″ Creator Exposed …. Then Fired’ was #1 on Digg and then removed. Does anyone know why? Has Digg become a political organization instead of a democratically ran organization?”
It turned out to be a big misunderstanding. You see a user had been posting a series of inaccurate and racist stories on Digg. Digg management removed the user; when the user was removed all the user’s stories were also removed. Read the comments on Digg you will get a fuller picture of what happened. So a politically charged story that made it to the #1 spot comments became completely inaccessible in a minute and then disappeared from the home page within 10 minutes.
Here’s my suggestion to keep people like me from suspecting something is up: When a user is removed/suspended have their stories remain active in some form. Just the remove the ability to vote for the story and comment. Keep the comments, individuals should have their views heard. Have a generic message appear that will say “This user has been suspended because [canned message goes here].” Finally have the link to the article stripped from the post so that some can’t click on the story.
Something else came out of this: All the diggs I’ve been getting. I love the attention. Thanks everyone, but I hope you’re digging me because I kept the page the Digg post is linking to accurate. If you’re linking to the story only because of the content of the original content without reading the article the post is linked to I personally would ask that you un-digg the article. I would update the original post on Digg if I could. Please, read the story before you digg an article.