May 1st - Digg Revolt

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.