For anyone not familiar with the events that unfolded at the internet’s top 25th most popular website Digg; Forbes has a well written article entitled “Digg’s DRM Revolt” by Andy Greenberg.
These events weren’t about the DMCA notice to Digg’s management. Nor were these events really about freedom of speech. In the managements attempts at damage control they admittedly deleted and banned several accounts not related to the DRM fiasco.
All new social oriented websites have growing pain of novice administrators and moderators, but Digg has no such excuse. A typical new forum would usually have both its users and management breaking cardinal rules, but after gaining experience and knowledge, things would settle down.
The site Digg prides itself for being a community that moderates itself. That idea was what made the site unique and popular, so when management decided to act before consulting its lawyers, it inadvertently punished innocent users. Typically moderator abuse at this level is punishable by loss of moderator status and banning, but we haven’t seen or heard of a single firing at the Digg offices. I’m deeply disturbed that even Forbes can’t contact Digg’s management on this issue.
The fact that their management fears DMCA notices more then its customers isn’t something that will be forgotten any time soon.
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