I see Little Green Footballs and Hot Air are still going on about the problems with Digg. Basically, their stories that are submitted to Digg are then descended upon by a bunch of cyber-monkeys who do nothing but bury opinions they don't like. Thus, as soon as an LGF post makes the front page of Digg, it's soon removed for being marked as "inaccurate" or "spam" and thus LGF and other conservative sites miss the huge number of eyeballs that the front page of Digg delivers. It's hard to say how many of the people who use Digg daily are left-wing nut balls, but my guess is it's a small minority that spend all day prowling for any opinions that offend their senses and crushing said opinions. Still, it's certainly enough people.

Efforts against this so far has seemed to be to appeal to a sense of fairness in these losers at Digg or to shame them for their fascists tendencies.

Hello! Have you guys ever met a liberal on the internet before? These people are so lost in their reality-based fantasy world where they valiantly wage war against Emperor ChimpyMcHilterburton that they are as immune to reason as Superman is to bullets. If the guys who run Digg don't care about the rules being exploited to suppress certain viewpoints, then the only way to change things is to force a rule change by making things unworkable as they are. If making Digg fair is important to conservatives, then the only possibly effective course of action is to organize efforts to bury and mark as spam any entries from sites popular on Digg until everyone demands the ratings system be fixed.

Of course, this isn't important to me so I won't be joining. I did add the Digg option to posts on IMAO out of solidarity with the right-wing blogosphere, but I don't see the point in pressing this any further. The same sort of thing going on at Digg has happened with YouTube and any entry on controversial topic on Wikipedia. What conservatives face here is more a force of nature. The people who rule the internet will always be those with the most spare time on their hands, and liberal weenies are always going to have an excess of spare time (why do you think they are the ones who do protests?). This isn't a battle we can win, and I think it's a waste of time to fight it.

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