Amazing events on Digg today with users up in arms over Digg removing a post linking to those numbers (09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0) that the MPAA don’t want us to see. All activity on the front page of Digg is around posts linking to the #.
I find it amazing that Digg would even try to censor something that is:
- In the public domain
- So close to the hearts of its community (MPAA bashing)
I don’t think this will have any long term effect on Digg, it will return to normal over the next couple of weeks (yes, I think it will take a little while to settle down) but I think it will have an enormous impact on Web 2.0, user generated and the legal responsibility of a service provider to moderate, control and govern its users.
A lot of organisations will now think twice before giving users as much power as they have been given by the first wave of user generated sites.
Things will change. Web 2.0 has just grown up.
Viva la revolution!
Update: Digg have given up moderating and have decided to go down fighting. I think that may be the end.
