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My honest question is: “why does it matter to the lesbian community if their blogs are not promoted by this particular website?” I mean it’s not like the blogs are being banned from the web, they’re just not being critiqued and ranked by digg. So what? We can all still read these blogs. And, I would rather read about lesbian blogs through the lesbian community then some homophobic ignorant techie site anyway.

Good question. Many bloggers, such as Becky C. at Just A Girl, have an appeal outside of the lesbian community. These social bookmarking sites are a means to disseminate information to those who might have interest in topics we blog about. Digg touts itself as “democratic,” yet eschew the principles of democracy. A democracy does not mean being “buried” by one individual who finds your content prurient or adult in nature, yet, that’s what they have done.

And though you prefer to find sites in the manner you use, there are others who do wish to have access to their information through Digg and other sites like it.

Whenever someone determines that what you or I say will be censored our free speech rights are at risk. It could be just “one of those things” and of limited importance or it could be the start of something that grows–spreads–and chips away at ALL of our civil liberties and rights. That’s how it always starts. Have someone tell us it’s for our own good–Hitler did a good job with that one.

I guess the real point for us a Lesbiatopia is we don’t really like to be told we can’t do what the other kids get to do… just because we are gay… tends to make us want to kick someone in the nuts… but maybe we are just funny that way

A lot of the guys that dig Digg suck–so on a personal level it does not really matter that I was early identified as a scourge and buried and finally banned.

The buring by itself, is probably ok. I think it should be alright if a bunch of Bubbas want to get togehter and make fun of three quarters of the human race. But call it what it is–the Klan or Naziville.

Don’t promote yourself as some great Digital Athenian Democracy. Of course, I don’t really think Kevin Rose believes that. He knows how it really works and who are the people that are his bread and butter. The Web 2.O philosophizing is just for public consumption.

And I suppose if he wants to let his brigades of neo-geeky homophobes bury lesbians, and conservative Christians for that matter, that is ok, so long as neither Kevin nor his company is assisting them or joining in it in any way.

Of course, we would have to know the actual contents of the precious algorithim to know for sure how much they were weighing in on that one. And if it is so good as he claims I just know a fine fellow like Kevin would not want any sexual discimination to factor into the selection of stories.

But, when managment joins in the dirty tricks of the homophobes, that is something entirely different. They have let accepted their phony complaints, and banned sites that were obviously being sabatoged becaue they were being written by real lesbians, not the pretend lesbians that are so common on Digg and which pseud-geeks and nincompoops with little weenies get such a kick out of.

I had a similar problem with sabatoging by the homophobes on Google/Adsense. Google,after analyzing the statistic recongnized its existence and put a note in my account to watch for this type of thing before doing any precipitious thing to my blog. I am not saying Google does no evil, but they are a heck of a lot better corporate citizens than Digg.

I am not an expert, by any means, on California discimination law. But, I think it is entirely possible they may have crossed the line with this one. And they are even ignoring all the polite inquires (and I sent three or four a few weeks ago–no answer). So they are on notice, and are getting worse–banning the Capn’ for bringing the issue up–is like “nothin’ more need be said.”

I am hoping this gets in the mainstream media–at the least the gay press in San Francisco. It really should not be tolerated.

~Becky

Bottom line: Digg is not worth dealing with.
But one aspect of this issue is well worth the time a lot of us are investing in it. Digg is run by homophobes. That word needs to get around. People need to know it. Period.

Is DIGG privately owned? If so they can do whatever the heck they want (no offense to those banned). Freedom of speech doesn’t mean your free on someone else’s privately owned property do do & say whatever you want. Even if it’s community based, like say a bookstore, it’s still owned by someone who can choose to kick you out if they wish.

If you don’t like the rules of DIGG like you may not like the rules of FOX “News” go somewhere else. Perhaps this is a perfect time to utilize http://topoutnews.com/ or some other queer site that does that sort of thing.

And P.S. to Hanh, please maybe try to refrain from using Black and or Wiccan folks in your description of folks who seem to be likely to do inappropriate things. That comment stung & wasn’t cool. Remember there are sisters reading and writing on this site too & I’d implore you to think how your comment might feel to them. We ALL belong here (don’t we?).

Also Ron Paul is a biggot.
Peace!
~F

Yes Digg is privately owned and I agree it can what ever it wants… just like the Klan and White Aryan websites can… its a free country… but I think its our duty to tell our readers that they may want to steer clear of such sites and their advertisers.

Wow, not one, but two Posse members under fire. Hi, francesm!

Rather embarrassing to have to point this out, but there’s this kinda intrinsic difference between what you phrased as “Black and or Wiccan folks,” and the term “Black Wiccan.”

And, say one had just two windows on anyone or anything, including Ron Paul. Would one be more likely to take seriously the measured, well-thought-out, articulate writings of Becky C or the inept example of name-calling you displayed? (That was a rhetorical question, savvy?)

Oh, and the name’s Hahn, not Hanh.

Maybe they don’t know anything about it and don’t want to insult the lesbians or that website is not for discussing lesbianism. Gays and lesbians call other people homophobes without thinking.Just because they don’t want to discuss lesbianism doesn’t mean they are homophobes.