Wake Up America Banned From Digg, Are Obama Supporters to Blame?
Some of you may have noticed over the last few days that the little “digg this” icon that used to appear on my posts is missing. It is not because I no longer wish to have my posts “dugg”, it is because digg no longer wants anything to do with me.
Last week I tried to access my account on Digg and found out that my account has been suspended and that the decision is final and irreversible. I have been banned from digg. Me, just a nobody with an opinion who happens to write about his opinions on the internet.
Anybody who has visited digg knows that it is a bastion of liberal intolerance, so this is not really surprising. I tried to get another point of view on their site, but I have been silenced. Only in America, huh?
The part of this that bothers me is that on August 5th I posted an article about President Obama’s supporters who were reporting websites that were anti-Obama as spam and getting them shut down. Ten days later I am no longer allowed on digg, I was reported as submitting spam. What a coincidence. The only crime that I committed was posting conservative articles on a liberal website, if that is spam so be it.
Needless to say, when I received the email explaining to me why I was banned and that I could never be reinstated as a digg contributor I fired off a reply that after several versions was cleaned up quite a bit. In this reply I accused them of considering a conservative viewpoint spam, and asked them if it could possible have been Barack Obama supporters that got me banned. I will be interesting to read their reply, if they do.
On August 12th I posted an article about how the fairness doctrine may be used to control web contentif the Democrats widen their majority in the house and senate and Obama becomes president. My fear was misplaced as I didn’t even have to wait that long, it is happening right now. It has happened to me.
My first amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press have been violated. I have no voice on digg any longer but you do. I ask everyone to stand up and shout, get your voices on digg, don’t let them silence the conservative agenda. We need to be heard. Please flood digg with conservative articles, they can’t shut every conservative account down, can they?
If you are up to it submit my articles to digg, don’t let them infringe on my rights, let my voice be heard. Don’t let them silence me. I am an American dammit and I have a right to be heard!
Where is the ACLU when you need them?
~mpinkeyes
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