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Digg Patriots
The Digg Patriots were an online US conservative activist group which shared news stories and opinion articles on the then popular left-leaning social media website, Digg. The group started as an invitation-only Yahoo! Groups email list after Digg removed inter-member Instant Messaging. Using a subscription mailing list service to replace Digg "shouts," members of the group shared links, and requested each other to vote up ("digg") or vote down ("bury") other members' submissions. This generated controversy with allegations that the group was "gaming the system". Controversy A blog post published on August 5, 2010 on the liberal news organization AlterNet with a companion piece in Guardian.co.uk raised allegations that the Digg Patriots were collaborating to censorship, censor articles that they perceived as "liberal" using Digg's "bury" feature, and to have "liberal" Digg members banned from the site by reporting their posts for terms of service violations. In the AlterNet report, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Conservative
Conservatism in the United States is a Political philosophy, political and social philosophy based on a belief in limited government, individualism, Tradition, traditionalism, Republicanism in the United States, republicanism, and limited Federal government of the United States, federal governmental power States' rights, in relation to U.S. states. Conservative bias in American media, Conservative and Christian media organizations, along with American conservative figures, are influential, and American conservatism is one of the majority political ideologies within the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party. American social conservatives typically support what they consider Christian values, moral absolutism, traditional family values, and American exceptionalism, while United States anti-abortion movement, opposing abortion, Euthanasia in the United States, euthanasia, and Same-sex marriage in the United States, same-sex marriage. It favours economic individual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
