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Digg Caught Red-Handed Censoring Ron Paul Stories

prisonplanet.com — The self-proclaimed digital democracy Digg.com has been caught red-handed artificially suppressing and censoring Ron Paul stories by expunging them from the website with just one bury, despite the fact that thousands of other Digg users are voting the stories up.

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  • delelles, on 01/17/2008, -11/+125If this is the case, then all articles with a Presidential candidate in the tite/description should be removed from the index after 1 bury as well.
    • theblueprint, on 01/17/2008, -45/+16First of all, the allegations in the submission are *****. There's no proof offered, other than an anecdote based from the results of a "bury recorder" that may or may not be accurate.

      Second, aside from Huckabee, no other candidate's supporters have organized to game Digg for the purpose of getting Paul free publicity. Until there's evidence of other candidate's supporters spamming and gaming Digg to the extent that Paulestinians have, your comparison is completely invalid.
      • cyborgmind, on 01/17/2008, -6/+18Thank you for the "free" publicity...
      • argusbargus, on 01/17/2008, -3/+13Concerning your allegation that "aside from Huckabee, no other candidate's supporters have organized to game Digg for the purpose of getting Paul free publicity", in your own words, "There's no proof offered, other than an anecdote".
      • artemus, on 01/17/2008, -5/+11Gee blueprint, do you actually ENJOY being on my block list, or does being a jerk just come to you naturally?
        • jcm267, on 01/18/2008, -11/+9Obviously he's not on your block list.
        • theblueprint, on 01/18/2008, -10/+8I enjoy being on your block list, Mr Cruise... I've known for a long time that "you can't handle the truth", and blocking me just confirms it.
      • jcm267, on 01/18/2008, -9/+10Do what I did and conduct an experiment. Turn on their little utility, and then bury it. Mine never showed up in there.
    • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -25/+15That tool watches DiggSpy, which never catches all of the activity with a story. It caught a bury, that doesn't mean there weren't more.
    • Jockdoe, on 01/17/2008, -5/+13Don't for get to make it Favorite story people as I believe that it helps with the logarithms.
      • COINTELPROAgent, on 01/18/2008, -8/+7Proof please.
      • jcm267, on 01/18/2008, -8/+9Did you mean algorithms? Where did you find this out?
      • onetimer, on 01/18/2008, -11/+9"logarithms"

        Hilarious. Looks like we have ourselves another conceptkid here.
    • pcapostate, on 01/17/2008, -5/+14Digg censors 100% of everything I submit
      • M4v3rIC, on 01/17/2008, -3/+8"Digg censors 100% of everything I submit" way to back that up.
      • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -9/+6Maybe 100% of what you submit is fecal matter.

        It's not obliged to hit the front page, you know.
      • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -3/+5Wow, I actually looked at your threads.

        First of all, they don't get many diggs to begin with, most times less than ten.

        Secondly,

        "The Dirty Work of Zionism is Unfinished"
        "Another Black Male in the “Wrong Place at the Wrong Time.”
        "Letter from David Duke to a Questioner of Diversity"
        "Curtis Maynard and the Jewish Question"
        "Queer white parents bring 2-year old girls to gay fetish fair"
        "Four ***** Responsible for Murdering White Girl Emily Haddock Arrested"
        "Bill O'Reilly is a Lying Son of a Whore"

        Okay, maybe the last one is correct, but why exactly are you demanding not to be dugg down for your White Supremacist submissions?
      • onetimer, on 01/18/2008, -7/+3Wow, you really are a sick *****, pcapostate. Go take your filth and hate mongering back to StormFront or ronpaulforums.
        • Parapadrifter, on 01/18/2008, -2/+6jeezz you should take your own medicine and go to dailykos or newrepublic...
          • onetimer, on 01/18/2008, -8/+3I was here before you and your racist-***** buddy came here. Why don't you leave?
    • brightmarc, on 01/17/2008, -3/+6Digg censored my story about the YouTube Forums
      • phronko, on 01/17/2008, -4/+4Digg censored my story that linked to the front page of my blog for no reason at all. It's like the only stories that make it to the front page are things that people find interesting and the rest totally get censored....wtf...
      • COINTELPROAgent, on 01/18/2008, -6/+7"Digg censored my story about the YouTube Forums" Well here's a clue for you: your story sucked, so digg users censored it.
        • notque, on 01/18/2008, -3/+5Digg has censored stories though. Try submitting anything about banned users, and they will bury it. We had one up something like 400 diggs in 20 hours, with no comments buried in a massively large thread.
        • EditorResponse, on 01/18/2008, -7/+2notque, it was probably that you Marxists were trying to take over.

          /s
    • royall64, on 01/18/2008, -1/+2I would be such an ass if I clicked bury...

      Must...resist...
    • bluezinc, on 01/20/2008, -1/+2Yes, we NEVER hear about RON PAUL on DIGG.COM!

      You mean every single story isn't about the messiah himself? CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!
  • towne420, on 01/17/2008, -20/+85Bury digg their a crap site. People need to start more and more web pages and digg them all flood the bastards.
    • CaptainNoPants, on 01/17/2008, -17/+19Hilarious.
    • Gratefuldead, on 01/17/2008, -2/+7they're not their
    • noctem314, on 01/17/2008, -6/+7Is this just a big joke I'm not getting?
      There's so many people on here that sound so sincere putting down digg, and yet they're on the bloody site! So many talking about how this proves something, so few of which seem sarcastic, when the "evidence" is about as far as you could get from any sort of proof!
      A *third-party tool* that monitors digg's *apparent activity* shows a *single article* submitted by a *single member* sinking after one bury. While this seems to be an instance where digg's logic is a bit off, it hardly qualifies as proof of some conspiracy. Maybe a software glitch, maybe a badly-tweaked algorithm acting too extreme, maybe justified but taken out of context (based on user credibility or past activity, etc.). The point is, nobody knows because the internal workings of digg are not known. It's a black box, so you'd need a whole load of regulated tests carried out against it to even guess at the reasons behind any apparent fault.
      Geez, I actually thought the article was satire at first, it seemed so ridiculous...
    • EditorResponse, on 01/18/2008, -7/+3towne420, all this bitching and one story submit, with thirty comments, NOT ONE friend and you have been here since August 1st, 2007. If the place bugs you so much what keeps you? ...you hardly exist anyway!
  • 12Bo, on 01/17/2008, -69/+23ok irrational RP supporter don't throw Digg under the bus so quickly like many of you have done to RP because of the so-called rascist stories that came to light. Lets wait for a response, if one will even be issued. If this is the case then just turn off the politics checkbox on the customize link and just go back to what digg was great for. TECH NEWS. Again, if you are watching Digg for all your political views then great but i recommend doing some research and looking into other form of content. One more thing besides all of the trolls and RP haters Digg is largely a libertarian independent base.
    "Here is a spoon, you know what to do with it."
    • DodgerBlues, on 01/17/2008, -17/+9I agree. People get so emotional so fast.
    • BenMuldowney74, on 01/17/2008, -9/+27nah.. i disagree. this is absolutely true. i have experienced it multiple times first hand. TRUE... kevin rose is a neocon puppet boy. he is allowing this.
      • darthchaosrspw, on 01/17/2008, -6/+11No wonder Sarah Lane left his sorry ass.
    • cyborgmind, on 01/17/2008, -3/+13Right.... Libertarian. HaHa...
      • EditorResponse, on 01/18/2008, -7/+1Exactly what I thought. Digg is a hangout for socialists, Marxists, and antiRepuiblican....NOT Libertarian.
    • Herkimer56, on 01/17/2008, -21/+13Why would anyone respond to a story from a sensationalist waste dump like Prison Planet? None of their other content is reliable and neither is this. That's why it's been labeled as inaccurate.
      • 12Bo, on 01/18/2008, -1/+6Explain why it is inaccurate. Site some sources that prove it is inaccurate and I will digg you up. Just because you don't believe it, doesn't make it false.
    • gandhii, on 01/17/2008, -1/+10good comment.. depressing it got dugg down so far... ;[
      • 12Bo, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2Thank you. For once I was trying to be serious and not immature in my posting. But i couldn't help it with the "eat my ass" remark at the end. No but seriously, I was trying to bring to lite that many mouse pad activists and trolls are IRRATIONAL and tend to let their emotions trump common sense.
        Don't believe it, then research it.
        Then make an informed decision.
    • shakingfist, on 01/17/2008, -5/+2For that matter, the world wide web was created for tech, so we shouldn't mind if someone wants to censor everything else?
  • ronpaulftw, on 01/17/2008, -14/+163digg, just as bad as any other lying corporate machine.

    you should be ashamed of yourself.

    reddit.com
    • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -24/+28I highly encourage all Paul supporters to leave Digg and go to Reddit.
      • Jockdoe, on 01/17/2008, -7/+19What would you do all day then?
        • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -22/+13Enjoy Digg a lot more.
          • BrapAllgood, on 01/17/2008, -6/+9You act like people step in front of you shouting Ron Paul! No. It is a *choice* you make over and over again to click on the stories associated with him. No amount of burying could *ever* make more time for you to go digg the subjects you actually find interest in. I have been watching you and several other complete losers troll Ron Paul posts since June. Your redundant behavior shows that this *is* how you enjoy Digg. It's absolutely no wonder some people think you (and certain others) are paid. It's easier for me to believe you just get off on putting down the interests of others because the internet makes your dicks feel bigger.

            Well, then here's another perfect chance for you to have a Coke and a smile and get back to doing what you do so well.
          • COINTELPROAgent, on 01/18/2008, -10/+7Brap, I got involved with this because RP supporters were going to other people's submissions, even about other candidates and topics, and harrassing the heck out of them. Me included.

            Spam is spam, whether it's a spam story or comment spam. The harrassment by you people is what drove me over the edge, and a lot of other people too.
          • onetimer, on 01/18/2008, -8/+8...AND brappie makes another post with a reference to male genatalia. Can't break the streak, can you?
          • hollyberrry, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3LOL! I found this story on Reddit, after checking digg for the day.
          • BrapAllgood, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3@CONINTELPROAgent: You are saying you started harassing Ron Paul supporters because they harassed you?!? Ridiculous logic you have there. Go read Batman comics until you learn better.

            @onetimer: .^.
        • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -6/+11"Enjoy Digg a lot more."

          Alone in your "Ron Paul is a Slave Owner" threads?
          You would enjoy that?
        • onetimer, on 01/17/2008, -11/+12Those threads wouldn't exist
        • ZZeke, on 01/17/2008, -5/+17@Hornton: *****. There's nothing you trolls enjoy more than antagonizing people with different opinions or ideas than you. You'll be wherever anybody is pushing stories and ideas you don't agree with, whether it's RP, Alex Jones, Raw Story, Huff Po, NYT - it doesn't matter.
          • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -11/+12Welcome to the internet, you must be new around here.

            I wouldn't be a good troll if I didn't piss people off, now would I?
          • ZZeke, on 01/17/2008, -6/+6First of all, you know damn well I'm no noob - besides the fact that what I said has absolutely nothing to do with my internet experience. Second of all, thanks for confirming exactly what I was saying and thus proving that your comment about "enjoying digg alot more" was complete *****. Trolls are only happy when they're pissing someone off - that was my whole point!
          • Hortnon, on 01/18/2008, -8/+9Being a good troll and enjoying Digg are two very different things.
          • theblueprint, on 01/18/2008, -10/+7"There's nothing you trolls enjoy more than antagonizing people with different opinions or ideas than you."

            I like to antagonize douchebags and idiots, not people with differing opinions. It just so happens that Paulestinians and Truthers are the best of both worlds.
          • ZZeke, on 01/19/2008, -0/+1Blue, you and I have had plenty of reasonably intelligent debates here, all insults and jabs aside. You're the one being a douchebag when you classify people who don't agree with you (RP supporters and "truthers") as douchebags and idiots...
            Again, you're proving my point about trolls and how they operate - you don't like Paul, and you don't want to hear anything about 911 unless it comes from the government - so that makes anyone who supports those things a douchebag or an idiot?
            That's some real self-serving logic there, pal - "I don't like these ideas, so anyone who does is just a douchebag or an idiot"....real scientific discovery there, lab-boy....
            I'll give you this: there are alot of people here on digg with nothing more to add than "RON PAUL 2008" or "DOWN WITH NWO" - if that's all you have to add, you might be a douchebag or an idiot, it's true - but just like Hornton, your comment belies your absolutist nature, the tendency to write off anyone who doesn't think like you do - and then you go a step further in admitting that you "like to antagonize" them - further emphasizing the point I made in the first place!
            Trolls are trolls, and they do what they do, it's plain for all to see - if that works for you, that's fine - but don't even try to justify it to me with that kind of twisted logic.
          • ZZeke, on 01/19/2008, -1/+1Hornton: Not if you're a troll they aren't. I "enjoy digg" without trolling and insisting on antagonizing others, seeking out stories I don't agree with. If you're a troll, that's what makes you happy in the first place, so I don't see your point at all.

        • NonServium, on 01/18/2008, -2/+6If Reddit became as popular as Digg, he'd go there and harass Ron Paul supporters there and tell them to leave again. The idea is to make places where stories are likely to be seen by a lot of people hostile enough so that news which challenges the establishment isn't published there.
      • COINTELPROAgent, on 01/17/2008, -14/+14Hear hear. All of you whining little brats should just go reddit where you can listen to other whiny little brats and console each other. People here are sick of your spam.
        • artemus, on 01/17/2008, -8/+11I don't think you're in a position to call anyone a "brat", considering your childish behavior.
        • COINTELPROAgent, on 01/18/2008, -9/+7"I don't think you're in a position to call anyone a "brat", considering your childish behavior." And what childish behavior might that be? Asking who wrote Ron Paul's racist newsletters?
    • JohnFive, on 01/17/2008, -8/+29Digg has been going down hill for me since I joined. All their lil fancy social perks are pointless when one person has control of what gets published. ***** digg. Every day its getting more in line with MSM. What kind of alternative is that?
      • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -20/+12Yeah! All those stories about Kucinich not allowed in the debate never frontpaged!
        • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -6/+12exactly...there's no one targeting Kucinich because he has no chance.
          • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -10/+8No one's targeting Kucinich because his more radical leftwing ideas are far more less harmful than Paul's.

            I wasn't fond of him in the last election but I guess Paul made him look harmless in comparison.
          • theblueprint, on 01/18/2008, -9/+8No one is targeting Kucinich for the following reasons:

            His supporters haven't spammed every available whitespace on the web.
            His supporters don't attack anyone who dissents or doesn't like their candidate.
            His supporters aren't self-righteous assholes who attempted to subvert Digg.

            If supporters of my candidate were to engage in the bad behavior that Paulestinians do, I would bury them just as mercilessly.
        • onetimer, on 01/17/2008, -14/+10More like no ones targeting kucinich because his supports just aren't quite as bad as the paultards.

          Well, at least none of the kucinich supports were screaming about you being "anti-freedom" if you opposed him, and how he was going to "sweep the election and kick the neocons out of washington"
          • jcm267, on 01/18/2008, -7/+8You'd have to go to DemocraticUnderground.com for those crazies -- and they get shot down there. At least that's how it was in 2004.
      • KMye, on 01/18/2008, -5/+4Digg has been going downhill since about 2 months before you joined, in March, when the first great wave of Paulnuts invaded.
    • Herkimer56, on 01/17/2008, -29/+12Please feel free to leave. Buh-bye!
      • kayaker712, on 01/17/2008, -5/+15Oh yes please don't expose me to other ideas.
        Thats because you already know everything then right?

        • BrapAllgood, on 01/17/2008, -5/+5Herk does actually know everything. Just ask him. Maybe rub his belly first. He likes that.
          • onetimer, on 01/18/2008, -7/+7What is your obsession with always mentioning Herk and some kind of physical act in the same sentence?
          • spartacus409, on 01/18/2008, -2/+8ugh that's gross
          • BrapAllgood, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3@onetimer: What is your obsession with imaginary obsessions?
    • Jockdoe, on 01/17/2008, -3/+12They should be ashamed but sociopaths find it very hard.
      • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -9/+4"They should be ashamed but sociopaths find it very hard."

        Objectivists should be classified under their own personality disorder in the DSM.
    • WaterDragon, on 01/18/2008, -2/+9I spend a lot more time on Reddit these days than on Digg.
      So, I get many of the best Digg news stories just a little bit sooner.
      Digg has sold out to the corporate money-pigs, and is getting more like FOX news every day!
  • illeagalhunter, on 01/17/2008, -12/+84Yellow media at work again
    • Herkimer56, on 01/17/2008, -21/+12At least someone recognizes Alex Jones for what he is.
      • artemus, on 01/17/2008, -2/+9There, there Herk. You're just jealous because PrisonPlanet is getting scoops that you never could when you were on the air.
      • BrapAllgood, on 01/17/2008, -5/+4I c whut U did thar.
  • debbiemae, on 01/17/2008, -11/+90Now they put up a warning on this article which proves it is fact.
    Warning: The Content in this Article May be Inaccurate
    Readers have reported that this story contains information that may not be accurate.
    • 56kCowboy, on 01/17/2008, -3/+11I've noticed several times articles are marked as potentially innacurate whenever they are about criminal activities of the establishment. Readers my ass, more like handlers.
      • wilde1studio, on 01/17/2008, -2/+5In my estimation, much like Wikipedia.
        • artemus, on 01/17/2008, -2/+5I found this when I first logged on:

          "UPDATE: After just one bury, this article too was deleted from Digg's upcoming category".
    • COINTELPROAgent, on 01/18/2008, -13/+4I marked it inaccurate, and so did all the other digg users that you guys pissed off.
    • CHUCKIEAMI, on 01/18/2008, -0/+5Look at the number of Digs... YOU are the few, and the ignorant...Bury your head in the sand if you will, the rest of us would like to think for ourself s thank you.
    • p0ss, on 01/18/2008, -0/+5Can't we at least see who buried something? if I knew hornton thought it was inaccurate, i'd know that it was accurate :)
  • ronpaulftw, on 01/17/2008, -13/+85Just keep resubmitting it.
    • theblueprint, on 01/17/2008, -26/+20This is exactly why Ron Paul gets buried into oblivion.

      You're supporting the intentional submission of dupe/inaccurate stories to promote your agenda. People who are *actual* members of the community don't like this *****, and are taking it out on all Paul submissions. (I don't support nor engage in blind digging/burying, but it's happening).

      You might be familiar with this... it's called "blowback".
      • BrapAllgood, on 01/17/2008, -5/+5
        You might be familiar with this... he's called "a fanatic oppressor".
      • pictureDIGGER, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2Welcome to digg, censoring digg is a bigg deal.
    • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -4/+14OK well then it's war...Digg is going to censor...we're not going to sit here and plead.
      Let's see how they deal with the new wave of submissions (which I have nothing to do with).
      • jcm267, on 01/18/2008, -8/+6You have nothing to do with it? So I can only assume that you won't be digging duplicate submissions of this.
    • dn11, on 01/17/2008, -7/+8"why aren't you reading my spam you assholes!! I have the truth read it 1000 times, why don't you want to!"
  • drxavier, on 01/17/2008, -9/+78Who reads Digg any more? I used to, but it became a big waste of time.
    • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -28/+16Go away. Pester Prisonplanet to make a crazyperson web 2.0 site, because we don't want you here.
      • keithgplayer, on 01/17/2008, -8/+12At least the blueprint was respectful in the last post I read from him, are you always this hateful.
        • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -23/+16I hold no love for people who think vaccinations and fluoride are nazi mind-control tools.

          Pseudoscientific attitudes such as theirs are a blight on the world.
          • spartacus409, on 01/17/2008, -12/+15Oh now your are the resident science expert then? I guess this means herkimer is out?
            You deny the Nazi's fluoridated the water in the prison camps?
          • Liverwurst, on 01/17/2008, -11/+9Spartacus,

            Your obviously an idiot. The Nazis only fluoridated the water out of concern for the health of prisoners. Hitler was a VERY loving individual.
          • imperium2000, on 01/17/2008, -8/+14@spartacus:
            Nazis fluorinated water? Yeah so?
          • cyborgmind, on 01/17/2008, -7/+8Are these new digg bury brigade? You're an ass & a twit just like the others. You're also a blight on the world. You're going like the rest of us.
          • Jockdoe, on 01/17/2008, -4/+7Yes they are obviously still in training cyborg
          • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -13/+13Yeah, the Nazi's did a lot of things in experimentation. Does that mean any of it was scientifically accurate?
          • Herkimer56, on 01/17/2008, -14/+15spartacus, every time you make a post you just display your ignorance for everyone to see. Don't you ever get tired of being laughed at?
          • imperium2000, on 01/17/2008, -11/+15I'm still waiting. The Nazi's fluorinated water, so what?
          • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -13/+15"Oh now your are the resident science expert then? I guess this means herkimer is out?
            You deny the Nazi's fluoridated the water in the prison camps?"

            The Germans fluoridated the entire water supply you *****, not for the benefit of the jews.

            "Are these new digg bury brigade? You're an ass & a twit just like the others. You're also a blight on the world. You're going like the rest of us."

            What? Going on a holiday? I like holidays :)

            "Your obviously an idiot. The Nazis only fluoridated the water out of concern for the health of prisoners. Hitler was a VERY loving individual."

            THE NAZIS GAVE SOME PRISONERS BREAD, BREAD HAS HARMFUL EFFECTS IF YOU EAT TOO MUCH OF IT.

            BREAD IS A NAZI TORTURE DEVICE

            God, if you sheeple only knew what SALT was linked to, whoo-boy! Every serial killer in existence imbibed sodium chloride the day before he went to kill.
          • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -5/+8"Your obviously an idiot. The Nazis only fluoridated the water out of concern for the health of prisoners. Hitler was a VERY loving individual."


            He just wanted their skulls which adorned his desk to have that extra white glow.

            Why are you guys debating with chaosium and imperium? If they want that healthy white glow...let them have it! Obviously, we just don't care too much about our oral health.
            I say chaosium should enjoy a nice tasty glass of tap water right now for us all!
            Go for it chaosium, take care of those choppers!!!
          • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -11/+13"He just wanted their skulls which adorned his desk to have that extra white glow."

            Fluoride isn't imbibed or topically applied for color, it's used for bone strength.

            "Why are you guys debating with chaosium and imperium? If they want that healthy white glow...let them have it! Obviously, we just don't care too much about our oral health.
            I say chaosium should enjoy a nice tasty glass of tap water right now for us all!
            Go for it chaosium, take care of those choppers!!!"

            It's possible to have healthy teeth without fluoride, but if you start off like that from childhood, it's much more difficult to maintain a healthy set of choppers. Do whatever you want to yourselves, but science doesn't back any health risk in the normal amount of fluoride to be added to the public water system and in toothpaste. You shouldn't eat the tube, and I'm sure overfluoridation should be vigilantly watched out for as with any problem with the public water supply, many of the chemicals involved in maintaining public utilities could cause issues if unchecked.
          • imperium2000, on 01/17/2008, -6/+9@card:
            Do not redirect the topic. Answer my question. What is the significance of the Nazis fluoridating the water? I'm assuming you have ZERO evidence to support any ***** claims.
          • BrapAllgood, on 01/18/2008, -1/+4"Fluoride isn't imbibed or topically applied for color, it's used for bone strength."

            *****. Science says otherwise. The 'benefits' of sodium fluoride as a bone strengthener are complete *****. To 'strengthen bones' with it, you must soak them in it. Momentary topical application does nothing for the bones whatsoever...but then you swallow. Sodium fluroide causes a slow chemical lobotomy, making those that ingest it much more susceptible to persuasion.

            http://www.fluoridealert.org/

            You can sit there and say it sounds crazy all day but there *is* hard science behind the threats imposed by sodium fluoride. Go enjoy your 8 glasses of tap water a day, but MY water comes from a pure source.
      • COINTELPROAgent, on 01/18/2008, -6/+7Prisonplanet did make a crazy 2.0 forum. Problem is there is no voting, all user submissions are equally insane.
        • KMye, on 01/18/2008, -3/+4Ooh, link please. That has to be worth a look...
          • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -5/+4Seconded. That's got to be like "survival of the fittest" for the craziest ideas in existence.
  • ronpaulftw, on 01/17/2008, -11/+111Warning: The Content in this Article May be Accurate
    Readers have reported that this story contains information that may be accurate and factual. Digg is a Joke.
    • Herkimer56, on 01/17/2008, -22/+14Ron Paul is a joke. A sick joke. And this article is inaccurate. That's why it's been buried.
      • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -7/+8Stop hating America with your conspiracy theories that a man in office can be a bad person.
        He's part of the U.S. Government, tin foil boy.
  • CaptainNoPants, on 01/17/2008, -26/+117I love Ron Paul. He loves freedom. Anyone that doesn't love Ron Paul hates freedom. Anyone that hates freedom hates America. Anyone that hates America is a terrorist. Anyone that doesn't love Ron Paul is a terrorist. Digg is a terrorist organization founded specifically to undermine the Ron Paul for President campaign. There is no democracy, only democrazy. Prisonplanet.com is the most truthful and unbiased site on the internet because it loves Ron Paul, freedom, and puppies.
    • bsegovia, on 01/17/2008, -16/+8I love Ron Paul too but it's that logic process that got us the Patriot Act. Careful buddy.
    • keithgplayer, on 01/17/2008, -9/+5Be careful when dealing with absolutes.
      • L4ughingM4n, on 01/18/2008, -2/+1I agree with you keithgplayer and I do believe some things of PrisonPlanet my self but, that does not meen I take the website as if it is absolute truth.
        • keithgplayer, on 01/18/2008, -1/+1I take everything with a grain of salt as well.
    • akapsycho, on 01/17/2008, -1/+17Oh I see what you've done here!
    • mtgradwell, on 01/17/2008, -5/+11Brilliant analysis, but not quite right. Digg was actually founded before the Ron Paul for President campaign. And I'm not sure about the puppies.
    • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -10/+21I love how you actually got Dugg up.
      • CaptainNoPants, on 01/17/2008, -5/+15lol, I've finally "seen the light"
      • Jockdoe, on 01/17/2008, -8/+7It's because it perfectly illustrates the system with a good analogy of the facist state we have. Credit where it is due.
      • KMye, on 01/18/2008, -2/+4I hadn't even noticed that. I thought a couple of the replies were good enough entertainment, but that's really just the winner of the entire comments section.

        Man, I just wish I was smart and lucid and awake like the PrisonPlanet crowd so I could see the truth, too. Alas.
    • thewebkid, on 01/17/2008, -3/+5I digg the wry humor...
    • cardwell1972, on 01/24/2008, -1/+1Your an asshat. Either that or I am for taking you seriously.
  • DoktorJeep, on 01/17/2008, -17/+75If the neocon trolls could be found out perhaps they can be put on trial someday after the revolution.
    In Germany they only got it half right at Nuremburg by trying only the leaders. They didn't round up all those Germans who supported Hitler directly, reported neigbors to the Gestapo, censored newspapers, helped destroy the cafe culture, kept foreign slave workers in the factories and farmsm and were complicit in other levels of the crime.
    Censoring free speech, hijacking political processes, and facilitating a warlike police state are offenses worthy of judicial review even for those who never wore a uniform, got paid for it, or "followed zee orders".
    It may seem radical but there are people on FR who imply that RP supporters should be rounded up. If that is ever attempted, it will be like grabbing the wrong end of a running chainsaw.
    • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -28/+17Since the revolution will end after Super Tuesday I guess you better get that trial ready
      • neopolaris, on 01/17/2008, -9/+14This doesn't end with Ron Paul pal.
        • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -10/+14Oh, I would say it does. You can toot your little horns and scream conspriracy all you want, people don't care.
          • BenMuldowney74, on 01/17/2008, -5/+5actually that is just the beginning. the meetup groups will have ron paul on every ballot as an independent. then we can focus on the CFR puppet nominees. talk about a field day.. we will tear these shills apart.
          • amiches, on 01/17/2008, -4/+8How can you tear the shills apart if you're stuck in the FEMA camp where you belong??
          • jcm267, on 01/18/2008, -2/+7Ben, I thought that Ron Paul wasn't going to be running as an independent.
          • COINTELPROAgent, on 01/18/2008, -2/+7"Ben, I thought that Ron Paul wasn't going to be running as an independent" But RP didn't actually say that, it was somebody else, probably Lew Rockwell but nobody knows for sure.
          • L4ughingM4n, on 01/18/2008, -4/+0lol, you all hate each other so much.
          • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -1/+6"the meetup groups will have ron paul on every ballot as an independent"

            Oh god yes. First thing I've universally agreed with you guys on.
    • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -15/+17Translation:
      "This country is so free! I want to execute everyone that doesn't agree with me!"
      • artemus, on 01/17/2008, -6/+4Translation:" I can twist your words any way I want to, so long as it doesn't represent what you actually said!"
        • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -2/+7How much is there to read into all the Paulsies that say that we'll be first up against the wall when the rEVOLution comes?
          • amiches, on 01/18/2008, -2/+7I cannot count how many times the tards have said that to me. It's like they're 10th graders discovering Radiohead for the first time.
    • ssn697, on 01/17/2008, -15/+17Another Ron Paul keyboard mafia tough guy. Wearing an Italian restaurant table cover as a cape does NOT make you Superman...
      • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -7/+8it's going to take a superman to take on those arab baddies you have plastered all over your profile.
        Luckily, you have John "KILL THEM ALL!!!!!" McCain in your corner to do the job...well, to send other people's kids to do the job...but you get the picture.
        • ssn697, on 01/18/2008, -4/+2go away, and never come back. you have no credibility, and you should know that by now.
    • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -6/+12We'll see how tough we are...ron paul supporter's aren't John Kerry supporters who just melt back into the woodwork.
    • amiches, on 01/17/2008, -11/+11It's so funny that the Paultards are now threatening violence against people who don't agree with them. Whatever happened to liberty, tards?
      • L4ughingM4n, on 01/18/2008, -3/+6What violence?
        • amiches, on 01/18/2008, -3/+8In case you're unaware, the Nuremberg trials typically ended with executions. Your buddy up there wants a Nuremberg trial for us NWO shills here on Digg.
    • BabyWookie, on 01/18/2008, -4/+6I bet you'd love to have yourself a little military coup and start rounding people up for execution at the public stadiums, Pinochet style? Wouldn't you, you sick *****!
  • Vinadetta, on 01/17/2008, -12/+66Yeah,
    I've been noticing Digg doing this for some-time now!!!! This website has been hijacked as well!!! I think even Reddit is a lot better than Digg at this point, plus this site never lets me access my friends stories!!! Shame on you Digg, this makes me sick!!!
    • edisonoside, on 01/17/2008, -8/+20Is there any field those kind of people don't cheat on?! Must they hijack and cheat on EVERYTHING?! Honesty is a deadly cancer for them. No wonder they don't like the honest Ron Paul. Now I know why they love Faux News and Bush.
    • FyreGoddess, on 01/17/2008, -25/+18The go promote your candidate on Reddit.

      PLEASE, if you don't like the fact that the Digg users are angry about the sheer volume of Ron Paul BS, then go somewhere else, thanks.
      • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -20/+17It's true, they LOOOOOOOVE Ron Paul there. I hear the INTERNATIONAL JEW CFR BANKERS are afraid to visit reddit!
      • BenMuldowney74, on 01/17/2008, -7/+6WAAAAAAAAAAA .. someone give fryedoggessssssss her baby bottle back.
        • theblueprint, on 01/18/2008, -4/+7Because she's the one crying about Digg being "unfair"?

          No... that's you. Project much?
      • jcm267, on 01/18/2008, -8/+9He probably does spam for Ron Paul at Reddit.
      • L4ughingM4n, on 01/18/2008, -5/+4Whats not to like about Ron Paul? He is about the only honest candidate out there on the floor.
        Love,
        L4ughingM4n
        • jcm267, on 01/18/2008, -7/+8Ron Paul is a lying, racist fool. His agenda would result in a global economic depression and more wars.

          Best Wishes,
          jcm267
        • p0ss, on 01/18/2008, -2/+1and of course economic stability is worth the economic oppression which allows it.
    • gooddaysunshine, on 01/17/2008, -4/+4it logs you out too when you go to check your friends activity? odd, i wonder which points of interest we have in common. - i know one. Rudy Guiliani talks about it - a lot.
  • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -53/+18To rely on an unapproved piece of software to accurately track another web sites application is not exactly fool proof. But please, go ahead and pass the tin foil around. Many people bury the RP crap without leaving a comment as obviously many people bury it as inaccurate without leaving a comment as shown here.
    • L4ughingM4n, on 01/18/2008, -4/+5I don't even try to touch this subject sense I don't know a dame things about what you guys are talking about. I just support R!P!
  • XPIOLT, on 01/17/2008, -13/+56Digg and Wikipedia are doomed to extinction. They both are controlled by the CIA and Zionists to suppress information from the dumbed down public. The sheeple are waking up like neo in the Matrix and are hopping pissed. Karl Rove said the neo-cons make reality, with the help of Digg, Wikipedia and the re-written History channel they are. Which means we have a lot of work to do.
    • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -26/+18I am so far from a neo con that I would not know one if I saw one. Digg, controlled by the CIA, Zionists and Yogi Bear? How did you come up with that?
      • darthchaosrspw, on 01/17/2008, -13/+6I can see why you think Digg is a CIA and Zionist front (but I need to see some proof), but controlled by Yogi Bear? Dude, even I think that comment was ridiculous.
        • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -18/+14"Yogi Bear? Dude, even I think that comment was ridiculous"

          Your fellow Paultards believe the rulers of the universe are reptilian aliens come down for the purposes of interstellar war.
        • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -14/+15Sarcasm kid, sarcasm, try and keep up
        • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -4/+5"Your fellow Paultards believe the rulers of the universe are reptilian aliens come down for the purposes of interstellar war."

          Yep we all believe that.
          We also don't want to drop bombs on arabs while all the other candidates do. KRAAAAAZY!!!
        • L4ughingM4n, on 01/18/2008, -3/+4I think the Zionist and alien reptiles don't have much ground to stand on to be true. What we need to do is worry about are constitution that is being destroyed by fear mongering politicians and watch out for the NWO agenda.
        • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -5/+3"We also don't want to drop bombs on arabs while all the other candidates do. KRAAAAAZY!!!"

          Obama doesn't want to start any wars.
    • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 01/17/2008, -12/+21Karl Rove? -check
      CIA? -check
      Zionists? -check
      Use of word 'sheeple'? -check
      reference to dystopian sci-fi flick? -check
      • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -20/+16We really need a Paulentologist checklist.
        • Herkimer56, on 01/17/2008, -10/+13We could never post it. Tom Cruise would sue us.
          • BenMuldowney74, on 01/17/2008, -3/+6oh look.. the megaphoners built a comment chain.
          • L4ughingM4n, on 01/18/2008, -3/+4lol, so funny.
          • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -5/+4"oh look.. the megaphoners built a comment chain."

            I don't digg anything about Israel, why would I use megaphone.
    • amiches, on 01/17/2008, -5/+6The hilarious thing is that this is quite likely a joke, and the crazy conspiracy theorists are still digging it up. I love this website :)
      • L4ughingM4n, on 01/18/2008, -3/+1I really hope this story is not true. :*(
    • scottknick, on 01/17/2008, -2/+4How do I get to be as extinct as Wikipedia and Digg?
  • amishdigger, on 01/17/2008, -7/+59Digg is just as 'democratic' as the government: When it comes to _real_ issues, the democracy stops and the cheating begins.
  • TDot1980, on 01/17/2008, -54/+18This is hilarious, and so is prisonplanet.com. They hijacked this article from TechCrunch.

    I found this in the upcoming stories section, so I don't know what they're talking about with the UPDATE at the top of the article.

    Maybe people who use digg for non-political reasons just got sick of the constant Ron Paul spam articles and their cult-like idiot followers. Maybe there are just more supporters of other candidates and they're burying the Paul stories. I don't live in the states, and I don't know anything about Ron Paul and I'm still sick of the guy. Grow up and quit whining that your rights are being quashed by the evil corporate media.
    • proctorsurf, on 01/17/2008, -10/+10you ignorant *****.... wake up sheeple bahhhhhhhhh bahhhhhhhhh
      • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -13/+12oh, someone got their little feelings hurt
      • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -9/+11"wake up sheeple bahhhhhhhhh bahhhhhhhhh"

        So how's that part-time job at Hot Topic treating you.
        • Liverwurst, on 01/17/2008, -9/+10It says update because it's using an article admittedly from another website to "update" its base of readers. Dumbass.
    • Ifritdave, on 01/17/2008, -8/+6"I don't live in the states, and I don't know anything about Ron Paul" OH NO! the guy that does no research is against us!! i guess i'll just give up on freedom then, thank TDot you really opened my eyes....fool
    • ZZeke, on 01/17/2008, -9/+8You're sick of RP, but you have no problem with MSM shoving Romney, Rudy, Hillary and Obama up your ass 24-7.
      I guess it's all about perspective...
      • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -6/+9"you have no problem with MSM shoving Romney, Rudy, Hillary and Obama up your ass 24-7"

        Who said we're comparing digg to network television?
        • ZZeke, on 01/18/2008, -4/+4Since when does MSM mean only network television?
          Here's a tip: MSM = Main Stream Media
          TV, Newspapers, Radio, and yes - the Internet, ALL carry the same mainstream messages. The trouble with digg (in my opinion) is that if it's not from mainstream source, or carrying a mainstream message, it gets buried regardless of the digg count. That's what the article is about.
          Personally, I think digg and it's front page are irrelevant anyway - one look at my profile will show you that I comment alot more than I digg. I don't care what this article says about digg being a major source of info like drudge. I've said it before and I'll say it again - when was the last time you heard a news report that says "this just in from the front page of digg...."? The answer is never, and you never will - because digg is not a news source, it's a dumping ground for everything and anything on the internet. It's nice to see a story you're interested in or a point of view you share on the front page, but all that means is that other diggers like it, too - yippee!
          My point was obvious, Chaos - you can't turn on the toob, the radio, or open a newspaper without having Hillary or Obama shoved down your throat, but this diggtard - who doesn't even live here or know who Paul is - is "sick of the guy", yet no matter where he lives I'm sure he's been inundated with news about HIllary, etc - and he's got no problem with that. You're smart enough to figure that out, even if you didn't realize that MSM isn't just network TV....so can it, and come back when you have a valid point to make.
          • jcm267, on 01/18/2008, -4/+8Talk Radio, Fox News, and a great deal of the more popular news sites and blogs out there are not considered the "mainstream media". Mainstream = NBC, CBS, ABC, NY Times, Washington Post, etc.

            Your favorite sources of information are what one may call "conspiracy media". Do you honestly believe what you hear on Coast to Coast AM or read at Prisonplanet and not believe anything that you see/hear/read from the left-leaning MSM, the right-leaning talk radio and Fox News, or from the left and right wing blogs on the Internet?
          • ZZeke, on 01/19/2008, -1/+1"left-leaning MSM" - LOL!!!
            yeah, msm was really left-leaning when it helped Bush start his illegal war by supporting the false WMD myth...
            You're on crack if you don't think that FOX is considered mainstream - just because everyone knows they're full of ***** and dole out deliberate misinformation on a daily basis doesn't mean it's not "mainstream".
            I guess you have your own idea of what MSM is, Joe - not that that surprises me. So let me get this straight - only the "left-leaning" media is mainstream, in your opinion? As far as most people are concerned, if you can watch it on TV, read it in any big regional newspaper, hear it on corporate radio (yes, that includes your boy Limbaugh), or pick it up on the major blogs/news sites - it's mainstream!
            I know you think that I'm some kind of non-thinking Jones convert, spending all of my time reading "conspiracy" pieces and listening to coast to coast (which I've never listened to) - but I've got news for you, my friend - I'm usually well aware of important news and opinion from all sources, I just prefer to form my own opinions by taking in as much as I can and sorting it out for myself. I don't take Jones' word over anyone else's, but I do appreciate his insight. There's been many times when I disagree with the over-the-top spin on infowars, I've made that clear here on digg more then once...
            You should really stop trying to force the whole world into such a simplistic black/white picture, man - I see mostly gray, with a little black and white at the edges. I have never completely discounted any source - except FOX news, because the propaganda is so blatant and the "news" is so dumbed-down it's pathetic - and even they don't get it 100% wrong all the time...
            You see, I'm the kind of guy who clearly sees the RIGHT-wing bias in most mainstream media, almost always towing the line for the government...just because a network or paper might report on how poorly this administration has handled everything doesn't make it "left-leaning" - the same outlets which report negatively on Bush, Cheney, etc., reported negatively on the Clinton administration as well when it was in order. You can't just throw a blanket over every source that disses your fuhrer and call it "left-leaning" because you don't agree with it. Some truths are undeniable, like the fact that Bush is the least popular president of all time - worldwide. Reporting on that doesn't make you a lefty - it makes you a realist, and it means you're reporting a known truth, not spreading "liberal" bias. When the msm ganged up on Clinton for the cigar affair - did that make them "right-leaning"? No, it didn't. They were just reporting the facts, even though many felt that the issue was moot to begin with and inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. It's all about your personal perspective, I suppose - but that doesn't necessarily justify putting the whole world into neat little categories which fit only your views - no matter which "side" of the spectrum you hail from.
    • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -8/+11"Maybe people who use digg for non-political reasons just got sick of the constant Ron Paul spam articles and their cult-like idiot followers"

      I know! I hate having to wade endlessly through iPhone and Britney news when I really just want to discuss politics.
      There should be some way to only view articles you are interested in instead of being forced to click on, read and comment on random articles.
      There should be some criteria where people can post to specific categories that the article fits into.
      There should be some kind of filter and search engine, too.

      Bottom line is we should stop being force fed all this nonsense we don't care about. I know it takes a good 3 hours of my morning away just clicking on all those iPhone articles and then selecting BURIED before I can get to my Ron Paul news.
      Oh well, until Digg finds out some kind of way to sort articles into sections and sub-sections, we are stuck with this murky layout where you are forced to read and comment on random articles you may not care about.
  • proctorsurf, on 01/17/2008, -18/+759/11 was an inside job
    • Herkimer56, on 01/17/2008, -19/+11Proof?
      • p0ss, on 01/18/2008, -2/+7that cuts two ways, got any proof that it was anything else? for example, some proof that it was AQ would be nice.
        Perhaps you could find a black box from the planes, or the gold bullion that went missing, or how about some kind of proof that Iraq and Afghanistan are in any way connected to 9/11?
        hey while your at it, could you find us some footage of the plane hitting the pentagon? there were plenty of cameras, looking strait at it, saw the whole thing, plenty of footage.. so if a passenger jet actually hit it, you should be able to show us right?
      • grinchdec23, on 01/19/2008, -1/+2LOL, I always get a good belly laugh when i see "Proof?" its too funny coming from Herkimer
    • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -5/+15yes. 911 was an inside job 100%.
    • L4ughingM4n, on 01/18/2008, -1/+2The dude just ask for proof, maybe you should deliver. I don't care about convincing people any more but you guys seem to care so how about trying to and stop bashing on everyone.
    • bingobongony, on 01/18/2008, -5/+4If you believe that then you shouldn't be a Ron Paul fan. He thinks you people are ***** wacko.
  • npd1969, on 01/17/2008, -11/+56Gotcha, Digg! Hopefully everyone will see you for what really are: Anti Free Speech, just plain anti American. Democracy are Two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. The sheep's opinion doesn't matter and is eaten!
  • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -40/+20People are just as free to bury RP crap as you people are to digg it up.
    Thats democracy.
    • darthchaosrspw, on 01/17/2008, -18/+7You're right. It is democracy, as democracy is actually "mob rule".
      • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -18/+18You have your mob, I have mine.
      • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -15/+14Welcome to social communities darchchaosrspw. Enjoy your stay :)
    • mango42, on 01/17/2008, -13/+35Not with 1 (ONE) bury wiping out 50+ diggs. That is not democracy. It is Fascism.
      • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -24/+16You are relying ona piece of unproven and unapproved software to provide you data that you are betting the farm on. In tech services that is a REALLY bad business plan.
        • grinchdec23, on 01/19/2008, -0/+1Proof? Show me a peer-reviewed, proven approved software program that scientifically shows the data ...
      • Kythas, on 01/17/2008, -6/+3How do we know that pic wasn't a photoshop? That's one neat piece of software, that Photoshop. Hell, I've even seen Jessica Simpson's head on some naked chick's body. You can do lots of stuff with that there Photoshop, yessiree.
        • darthchaosrspw, on 01/18/2008, -2/+2They could have been using GIMP, aka "the poor man's Photoshop". :)
        • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -6/+2I don't think it was photoshopped, I do believe the data he's working with is *****, however.
    • neopolaris, on 01/17/2008, -4/+2Actually it's more a combination of foolishness and ignorance.
    • phenry, on 01/18/2008, -2/+7"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

      H.L. Mencken
      • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -4/+4"The case against the Jews is long and damning; it would justify ten thousand times as many pogroms as now go on in the world."

        H.L. Mencken
        • snowball69, on 01/18/2008, -1/+3Of course we could play this rather pointless game all day - if we were all either fanatics or cointel employees...
          A few of Karl Marx's (aka. Karl Levy's) "Self-hating?" Anti-semitic comments (1843)...
          "Money is the jealous god of Israel." Marx
          "What, in itself, was the basis of the Jewish religion? Practical need, egoism." Marx
          "The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew." Marx
          "Once society has succeeded in abolishing the empirical essence of
          Judaism -- huckstering and its preconditions -- the Jew will have become
          impossible, because his consciousness no longer has an object, because
          the subjective basis of Judaism, practical need, has been humanized, and
          because the conflict between man's individual-sensuous existence and his
          species-existence has been abolished." Marx
          http://marx.eserver.org/1844-jewish.question.txt "The Jewish Question" Karl Marx
          Refs: http://www.google.com/search?q=the+jewish+question ...
          Unsurprisingly the left generally don't want to talk too much about the core of their own faith.
  • NRX22, on 07/23/2008, -9/+49Exposed again.
    • dn11, on 01/17/2008, -3/+6Absolutely, after 2000 front page ron paul stories on digg, they have finally been exposed.
      • NRX22, on 07/23/2008, -3/+4Great point.
        And not to mention the other 2000 stories that never made the front page because they were pulled for no reason.
  • stanneh, on 01/17/2008, -10/+51[QOUTE] "Warning: The Content in this Article May be InaccurateReaders have reported that this story contains information that may not be accurate."

    what a load of rubbish Digg just lowered itself to fox news levels.

    i will never visit this website again!
    • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -22/+18Geez, is that all we needed?
      • FyreGoddess, on 01/17/2008, -17/+19I suggested that months ago, man. If every Ron Paul or 9/11 Truth story was buried as "Inaccurate" it would make their heads explode.

        Clearly, even just these two being marked as such is making their heads explode.

        Look! Pretty colors...
        • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -9/+15Well, there's the bonus when you mark it as spam that the Digg software will eventually ban the domain. That's always a plus...
    • Herkimer56, on 01/17/2008, -14/+11Good-bye, farewell, Godspeed, parting is such sweet sorrow, buh-bye!
  • jasonacoker, on 01/17/2008, -10/+51There's a major shift in American politics coming down the pike. With polls in recent years showing that younger Americans were increasingly socially liberal, the Democratic party thought it was poised to take over. Turns out, a huge number of these 18-25 year olds aren't really democrats...they're libertarians. Ha!
    • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -23/+13And then they grow up
      • cyborgmind, on 01/17/2008, -12/+10Don't you have to get your parents permission to be here...
        • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -11/+11Let me go ask one of my kids and see if they approve :)
        • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -4/+7Folks, GoatRoper has a kid.
          I repeat...GOATROPER HAS A KID!
          Help us all...
      • gandhii, on 01/17/2008, -2/+9Yea.. grow up into being financially conservative as well..
      • jcm267, on 01/18/2008, -4/+6Those that do grow out of their Libertarian stage become Republicans.
        • card51short, on 01/18/2008, -3/+4are you implying that the older you get the more likely you are to want to bomb third world countries to oblivion?
          That is simply not true. Look at Ron Paul!
        • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -4/+2I don't know, RP helped cement that I couldn't be a social liberal and at the same time a pure "fiscal conservative".

          Then again, much of the GOP isn't fiscally conservative as it is and i'm hardly socialist.
    • DahuiHeeNalu, on 01/17/2008, -7/+20Im changed from a republican to a libertarian after this election!
      • Herkimer56, on 01/17/2008, -17/+8More likely you changed from the Green Party.
    • scottknick, on 01/17/2008, -6/+3They are? Then thank God they don't vote.
    • bingobongony, on 01/18/2008, -6/+3And that is why Ron Paul is getting 6% of the votes? And not even winning the 18-25 demographic?
  • darthchaosrspw, on 01/17/2008, -9/+46I guess next is for Digg to take a cue from FreeRepublic, which is to reject all Infowars and Prison Planet articles during the submission process. (And yes, FreeRepublic does in fact do that. If you try to submit an article from Infowars or Prison Planet or Rense, it says "Infowars/Prison Planet/Rense not welcome.)
    • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -32/+17Maybe because Prison Planet is a kook sight????
      • cyborgmind, on 01/17/2008, -13/+14Wow... you're so original. Is this what your handlers are telling you to write?
        • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -16/+12Sometimes, originality can be quite simple.
        • Jockdoe, on 01/17/2008, -6/+10It could be quite simple if you spoke English, I deciphered you post and can i suggest that you may have meant 'site' not 'sight'. If this is not the case forgive me, you must really not like the web design or somehow find it 'kooky'.
        • artemus, on 01/17/2008, -1/+6Wow, so being a news aggragator, and writing original commentaries based on those articles qualifies it as a kook site? What are you smoking? Because I'd like to have some too.
    • FyreGoddess, on 01/17/2008, -26/+15I've been actively marking them as spam in the hopes that will happen. Considering pretty much everything that Alex Jones posts is actually an article from a different source, I'm really surprised it hasn't happened yet.
      • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -12/+18I honestly think that the Digg software has a special status for these sites. A while ago, the sites were banned from Digg. But, there was a huge outrage from the truthers, who managed to convince normal Digg users this was a bad thing. So, Digg allowed the sites to be submitted again, but they never frontpage. They just sit in upcoming gathering Diggs then get buried.
        • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -8/+11yet for some reason, your comments are buried 95% of the time...weird...
          • jcm267, on 01/18/2008, -9/+3Ironic here. Hortnon has +8, and you have -5!
    • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -27/+14That's because there hasn't been a single accurate article of worth from Prisonplanet or Infowars in its entire operation.
      • cyborgmind, on 01/17/2008, -11/+14Thank you for your spontaneous & very objective viewpoint. Where's the rest of your minion's hiding?
        • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -7/+10It is objectiively a very flawed site that makes stories up out of whole cloth.
        • artemus, on 01/17/2008, -1/+4And on what objective basis do you make such a subjective assertion?
      • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -5/+7take chaosium's political advice very seriously. He is an unbiased source of info.
        He certainly doesn't dedicate his life to burying stories on a particular candidate or anything.
        • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -5/+9Why don't you write a survivalist newsletter about it.
    • bingobongony, on 01/18/2008, -7/+1You are right. They should. Intelligent people don't wnat to read that crap. Even those site's authors don't beleive most of what they put on the site. They admitted that.
  • itsnt4me, on 01/17/2008, -8/+56The best weapon we have is Boycott but it's never used. I will from this moment on Boycott Digg. Easy just don't ever come over here any more.

    Ron Paul 2008
    • CaptainNoPants, on 01/17/2008, -22/+23oh thank you sweet, merciful lord. now if we could only convince the rest of the mob to follow suit...
    • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -23/+20No doubt, this is like frickin Christmas morning all over again
    • FyreGoddess, on 01/17/2008, -17/+25Ron Paul supports your right to boycott.

      Those who don't boycott Digg hate freedom and spit on liberty!
      • Kythas, on 01/17/2008, -7/+4Damn, I wish I could Digg you more than once for that one!
    • theblueprint, on 01/17/2008, -14/+18That's a "Revolution" I could get behind.
    • onetimer, on 01/17/2008, -11/+15Can you at least wait until after paul drops out so I may continue to laugh at your ilk's foolish postings?
    • dn11, on 01/17/2008, -6/+13and the digg community thanks you.
    • bingobongony, on 01/18/2008, -4/+2That is a get idea. Attention all Ron Paul supporters...it has been determined that it is in the best interests of Ron Paul to boycott digg. Therefore, please don't post any more articles on Ron Paul. Thank you.
  • mango42, on 01/17/2008, -12/+43So yet another 'great American idea' goes ***** up.
    I have suspected digg for some time of manipulation - now it is confirmed. Just another spook-controlled organisation determined to obliterate the US Constitution.
    In other words - traitors.
    Why not tell them direct - their email is feedback@digg.com. Be polite in how you phrase the 'bunch of America-hating turds' they are showing themselves to be...
  • Zarxrax, on 01/17/2008, -30/+19Geez you morons, digg isn't censoring anything. Look at the story thats claimed to be "censored". The ron paul paypal freeze story. If you do a basic search of digg, you will see that the SAME DAMN STORY has already been posted like 10 times or more!
    • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -25/+12yep, hence the spam/duplicate story
      • Jockdoe, on 01/17/2008, -9/+171 bury shouldn't bury an article, full stop.
        • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -10/+15Prove that it was one bury.

          Do an actual investigation instead of this *****. Watch many stories, collect lots of data, and do an actual analysis. Ask Digg to open up bury data to you. Find out how accurate DiggSpy actually is. Do research. You know, actual ***** journalism.

          This article is just wasting everyone's time.
        • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -7/+12Feel free to actually contact Digg on the matter rather than flipping out.

          That sort of story wouldn't make Prisonplanet, though.
        • vault, on 01/17/2008, -2/+12The guy admits that it only catches 10% of buries http://mashable.com/2008/01/15/diggs-top-buried-st ...
          • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -3/+11What the hell is this...facts? My God, what have you done?!
          • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -3/+9"What the hell is this...facts? My God, what have you done?!"

            SOMEONE BURY HIM BUT QUICK
  • THEROC, on 01/17/2008, -8/+505% of all stories ever submitted are buried.
    95% of all Ron Paul stories ever submitted are buried.
    • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -25/+17Because 95% more stories are submitted on Paul than other candidates probably :)
      • THEROC, on 01/17/2008, -10/+20Logic is not your strenght.
        • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -15/+12Wit and common sense are not yours
        • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -15/+12And yet he is correct and you are wrong, funny how that works!
        • artemus, on 01/17/2008, -1/+5And yet neither you nor goat roper are right, or even logical! Funny how that works!
        • snowball69, on 01/18/2008, -2/+2... and keyboard skills aren't yours (or mine for that matter lol) but a short and provocative statement like that might, at least, have merited a smellcheck
      • Jockdoe, on 01/17/2008, -7/+9It's a racist name/nic you have there, you know i guess that you call kids kids because of isreali hate for any non jew? and i guess the 'roper' is to try to say somthing too.
        • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -9/+11What in the hell are you talking about? Do you even have any idea where that term comes from in America? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=goa ...
          Wow, and I thought I had heard every spin of that nickname, lol
        • Jockdoe, on 01/17/2008, -4/+4Thanks.
        • card51short, on 01/17/2008, -5/+7Ahhh so goat roper is a hick with no brain.
          I see now.
        • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -4/+5"It's a racist name/nic you have there, you know i guess that you call kids kids because of isreali hate for any non jew? and i guess the 'roper' is to try to say somthing too."

          what
    • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 01/17/2008, -21/+13That still leaves way too many pRon Paul stories.
      • snowball69, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2How many Ron Paul stories are "enough" in your humble opinion?
    • RonLawl, on 01/18/2008, -1/+8You ever notice how if you try to search for the James Kirchick piece on Digg, you can't find it? He's been featured on most of the major news shows, and it's even forced Ron Paul to appear on CNN to defend himself. Oddly enough, you'll find dozen of digg articles attempting to refute Kirchick (usually either with an ad hom attack on Kirchick, or a simple "Ron Paul says he isn't a racist and I believe him"), but no link to the original article itself. So why is that? Well, obviously, because Digg has a huge bias against Paul.
  • markvand, on 01/17/2008, -11/+38Hahahahaha I knew this day would come. Digg has been caught with the pants down. I'm going to send an email asking why one bury can cause an article to become buried.
    • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -12/+14Prepare to be laughed at and your email passed around the Digg offices as a joke.

      If you get a response, it'll be something like "We do not expose buries to tracking services, so there is no way to accurately track them."
      • Jockdoe, on 01/17/2008, -9/+11You would know.
        • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -9/+14Anyone that's used Digg and paid attention for a year knows. There was a big story about "BURIES EXPOSED" or something like that, and it started out as a big scandal. Then Digg responded with almost exaclty what I put there.

          It's not that hard.
  • blueagle, on 01/17/2008, -8/+33The reason we don't have to worry about this digg media manipulation crap is that freedom is infectuous.... and that is what these neocon media war loving whores really worry about ....they can't sleep at night knowing the people are starting to wake up.
    • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -17/+12lol, what planet are you on?
      • Jockdoe, on 01/17/2008, -7/+10The same one your on, but if he were from any other planet it stands to reason that he would be more intelligent.
        • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -10/+8ya see, you are trying to use reason again
      • mynamis, on 01/17/2008, -3/+10Hey GoatRaper your wife is calling you. She says, "Baa."
        • amiches, on 01/17/2008, -2/+6EVERYONE THAT DISAGREES WITH ME IS A SHEEPLE
      • darthchaosrspw, on 01/17/2008, -3/+2I'm on Earth. You're clearly on Uranus. (Pun intended.)
  • MacBigot, on 01/17/2008, -11/+43Wake up, Digg. Our Founding Fathers warned us about democracies (like Digg) long ago:

    "[D]emocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." - James Madison

    "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - John Adams

    "A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.... The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness [excessive license] which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty." - Fisher Ames, Author of the House Language for the First Amendment

    "We have seen the tumult of democracy terminate . . . as [it has] everywhere terminated, in despotism. . . . Democracy! savage and wild. Thou who wouldst bring down the virtuous and wise to thy level of folly and guilt." - Gouverneur Morris, Signer and Penman of the Constitution

    "[T]he experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived." - John Quincy Adams

    "A simple democracy . . . is one of the greatest of evils." - Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration

    "In democracy . . . there are commonly tumults and disorders. . . . Therefore a pure democracy is generally a very bad government. It is often the most tyrannical government on earth." - Noah Webster

    "Pure democracy cannot subsist long nor be carried far into the departments of state, it is very subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage." - John Witherspoon, Signer of the Declaration

    "It may generally be remarked that the more a government resembles a pure democracy the more they abound with disorder and confusion." - Zephaniah Swift, Author of America's First Legal Text
  • PSWTyrant, on 01/17/2008, -9/+50Digg is rigged!
  • bsegovia, on 01/17/2008, -26/+9"mere tool of the political establishment." I think that's going a bit far. Jeez, calm down people you sound like wide-eyed craze-mongers. I've gotten plenty of Ron Paul news through digg. Don't know what you're talking about.
    • BurningFIREs, on 01/17/2008, -9/+9Hey MAN Digg is GOING DOWN THE TUBES !! GET USED TO IT !! Stop censoring these stories or we will all work day and night to make sure DIGG goes out of business !!
      • CaptainNoPants, on 01/17/2008, -11/+11Wow, really? You have the power to bring digg down? Is this your 3 step plan?
        1. Whine
        2.?????
        3. No more digg!
      • Hortnon, on 01/17/2008, -12/+11Digg going out of business...hahaha that's funny.
      • onetimer, on 01/17/2008, -9/+12Digg will outlast your psuedo-ron-paul-cult movement, and will be in much better shape after you people slowly fade away into obscurity.
      • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -5/+13"we will all work day and night to make sure DIGG goes out of business"

        No you won't. You can't even get many Paul articles to the frontpage anymore, there's no way you can cause any actual damage to the site, no matter how many Prisonplanet threads you have on how to "game" digg. You have no power on or off the internet.
  • AAjax, on 01/17/2008, -6/+35this will never see the front page. Perhaps we should take the "***** You Frank" mantra and apply it to Kevin?
    • chaosium, on 01/17/2008, -23/+14Go ahead, it'll have the same exact effect.

      It's not Frank's fault that your candidate is a complete flop, and it's not Kevin's fault that your candidate and his backers are unlikeable.
      • AAjax, on 01/18/2008, -0/+5But it is franks fault that he has used his life to manipulate the perception of others, as it may well be Kevins
  • rich6985, on 01/17/2008, -7/+45WHAT THE ***** DIGG!!!
  • DahuiHeeNalu, on 01/17/2008, -6/+40Digg that's TREASON!!!
  • KathySmith, on 01/17/2008, -9/+20That is covert. Thanks for posting. It is to the advantage of the sight owner to maintain a sense of integrity and be unbiased on their power of clicks. Thank goodness for Technocrati and myspace.
    • CaptainNoPants, on 01/17/2008, -18/+12You spelled site wrong. Thank goodness for myspace? When you get out of middle/high school and look back you'll realize just how foolish that sounds. Learn how digg operates instead of giving into the RP mob mentality of "Everyone is out to get us! They hate freedom!" It only reinforces the unbalanced perception everyone has of you.
    • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -16/+14Integrity, a RP supporter speaking of "integrity"?
  • TheLittleVoice, on 01/17/2008, -4/+37I had the story about Bush possibly involved in some cult murders, matching bite marks, cover up, etc. -- disappear after reading the story and clicking to view the comments. DIGG IS RIGGED!
    • TheLittleVoice, on 01/18/2008, -1/+3Further proof... I just checked and this story is not in the Top 24 Hour List or the 7-day List either. Why?
  • phillybilly, on 01/17/2008, -4/+42Goodbye DIGG, I promise you I will NEVER visit your site again
    • GoatRoper, on 01/17/2008, -17/+18Sing it with me: "hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah.........."
    • imperium2000, on 01/17/2008, -15/+21"Hare, hare, hare, hare, hare, hare krishna!!!"

      I cry tears of joy. Bye...don't let the "who gives a *****" hit your backside.
    • dn11, on 01/17/2008, -7/+13don't forget your tin foil body suit on the way out the door.
    • COINTELPROAgent, on 01/18/2008, -4/+5Take some of your friends with you mkay?
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