Fri Aug 8, 3:39 PM Pacific • posted by Jed Lewison
McCain's Campaign of Silence
Apparently I'm not alone in having content quashed by McCain's bury brigade at digg. The basic idea of McCain's bury brigade is to hide from view negative stories about McCain on digg, the web's most popular community-moderated site for sharing news and other information.
A perfect recent example of a video getting buried is my recent "What Happened?" video about McCain's curious blanking out. It received hundreds of diggs on the day it was posted, yet never made it to the front page of digg -- because McCain's censors quashed the story.
It's hard to know exactly how McCain's bury brigade operates because digg is not transparent. But as the post at Political Irony makes clear, there is an organized effort to squelch discussion of topics which do not flatter McCain.
This is a thoroughly dishonorable tactic -- especially given the negative tone of his campaign.