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Hey guys! Remember when Digg tried to censor the HD-DVD encryption key back in 2007?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-DVD_key

Remember how they'd delete stories containing the key and ban people who posted it?

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2007/05/1/

Remember how everybody got so pissed off that the entire front page became full of stories talking about the key and slagging the site?

http://imgur.com/K3uMg.png

And remember how Kevin Rose finally backed off, publishing a blog post with the AACS key in the title (which became one of the most highly-dugg stories ever), asking for forgiveness and saying things like:

"[A]fter 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."

http://blog.digg.com/?p=74

Yeah. The same thing is happening now. While the front page is showing day-old (or older) stories from Engadget and Mashable with 50 or 80 diggs, this 20-hour-old story clearly outlining all the problems with the new site has over 1,000 diggs and isn't popular yet:

http://digg.com/news/technology/dear_kevin_rose_2

This one has nearly 1,300 diggs and is likewise suppressed:

http://digg.com/news/worldnews/rip_digg_com

Why is Digg censoring content once again? Why is the same guy who humbly apologized for trying to silence the community now approving that same censorship once again? Does the community no longer have any say in what appears on the site? What happened?

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