It is happening as I speak, the entire front page is loaded with the recent hex decimal number the encrypts HD DVD discs. Digg tried to censor them, and now we revolt.
wikipedia article on the event: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDDVD_Night (removed 11:00ish) (now up again)
song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HaNbsIfp0
chat: http://geekchat.net/gcbasic-cp-version/
Piratebay knows whats up
Digg this page!! http://digg.com/tech_news/May_1st_Digg_Revolt_This_will_certainly_be_felt_around_the_net_tomorrow
10:30ish no more stories reaching the front page. at all.
10:49 most things on rededit are about digg censorship.
10:53 can no longer submit to digg "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading."
11:02 first fresh story to hit the page in a long time was buried in just a few moments.
11:06 still cant submit anything, last submittion 32 min ago.
11:08 numbers of votes seem to go up and down by large amounts... have been for awhile.
11:10 submit back up!
11:15 the mass of stories again floods the queue
11:17 Wikipedia locks the HD DVD article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-DVD)
11:21 apparently the number is alive, and created a myspace: http://www.myspace.com/09f911029d74e35bd84156c56
11:24 wiki page about tonight back up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDDVD_Night
11:25 the stories are getting to the front page again!
11:33 the wikipedia article shows "This page has been deleted, and protected to prevent re-creation."
11: 45 1,800 Members Reached on facebook group!
11:47 Article on slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/02/0235228
11:57 things are beginning to get out of hand... the point has been made
12:04 when diggers do something, they do it right, and with a loud voice. the riot continues
12:12 you can watch on digg labs as they delete stories...
12:15 this is exploding.
12:52 same old stuff happening, I'm calling it quits for the night. One thing is for sure, we won.
You can read in the comments what happened after I stopped watching.
I returned this morning to find this as the top dugg story: http://blog.digg.com/?p=74
Victory.
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It started last night.. It exploded today (May 1st)
http://www.zazzle.com/product/235272325492436043
Check it out ;)
respect.
Digg goes offline. 11:41 MST
http://blog.digg.com/?p=74
"by Kevin Rose at 9pm, May 1st, 2007 in Digg Website
Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts…
In building and shaping the site I’ve always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We’ve always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community. Occasionally we step in to remove stories that violate our terms of use (eg. linking to pornography, illegal downloads, racial hate sites, etc.). So today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.
But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
Digg on,
Kevin"
Digg.com returns with:
This page
Digg.com back up. Kevin says:
"We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be."
And we see that he 'if only to save face' does care.
12:00 am MST digg down again with aformentioned "We'll be back shortly" message
12:15 am MST Digg returns. front page still is splaterered with 'that' number
12:45 am MST
Digg blog post saying "If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying." stays at top.
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