Siderea

Because I have been under a crushing pile of school work and am just now emerging a little, I will simply quote the entirety (with permission) of metageek's precis:

• Someone hacked the master key for the DRM used in HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
• The story got posted on Digg.
• The HD-DVD people sent Digg some sort of demand that they take it down.
• Digg did so, which they may been legally required to do, and killed the submitter's account, which they were not.
• People started writing about this censorship on their own blogs.
• Said blog posts got posted to Digg.
• Digg took down those posts, too, and killed the accounts of the submitters. (Digg has a history of suppressing criticism of itself, despite its claim to be a purely democratic system.)
• Some hell broke loose.
• And then all hell broke loose.

Hard to say who's lost more credibility, the HD DRM people or Digg.

Finally, the founder of Digg conceded to community pressure in his own blog, writing:

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.