What sucks about the Digg Riot

.....But now, after 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.

If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.

Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, posted that. Now here's why this whole Digg Riot thing sucks and I'll use a few comments from Webmasterworld to illustrate:

jecasc said "The users shout "censorship" from their comfortable chair of anonymity and let the site owner face the consequences. If you take a look at most of the entries you will notice that most people are very eager to preserve their anonymity by using flickr or even editing wikipedia entries to cover their own behind. "

and also said:

"The users loudly demand Digg should stand up for their freedom of speech and take all the fire while they stay behind in their trenches of anonymity and duck for cover. That's what I do not like in this case. You cannot demand that others take risks you are not willing to take yourself."

I don't mind cowards. "He who runs away lives to run another day". But I do hate cowards who try to take some stand while protecting their own ass and hanging someone else's out to dry.

Now, here's something weird. Before I even thought of this post, I've had an Incubus song running through my head all day long. The song is "Dig". No lie.