也算一种政治勇气

在今天看GoogleReader中订阅的帖子的时候，看到几篇文章都提到了这件事，
Digg对可能违法材料的处理
加密算法中私钥的安全性
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 让我见识了 Web 2.0 用户的力量

Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

Digg 在用户们的要求下，作出了自己的决定，作顺从大多数用户的网站是他们的决定。

有人在网上贴出了破解HD-DVD或是蓝光DVD内容保护所需要的一串数字，128位，然后AACS-LA，就是给DVD软硬件厂商发许可的这个机构让律师给这些网站发了信，要求他们撤下这些贴子。刚开始digg把网友推出来的贴子给关掉了，然后触发了更激烈地反抗。最后digg管理方给出了下面这段话，贴子的标题上直接就包含了这串数字

Digg 没有屈服在这些媒体霸权之下。

那么我们如果用Google来搜索这串128位数字，会得到什么结果呢？

看看有259,000个页面，可是当我现在再次检索的时候，这个数字到了695,000个页面。
注意我在上面用黄色划出，有人已经用这个数字注册了一个域名，真的厉害。

反对把霸权在任何地方都会有，包括技术霸权。而挑战这种霸权的人总是会得到大多数普通人的认同。
而Digg的创始人Kevin Rose作出的是自己的选择，就是同用户同进退，共存亡，这难道不是一种政治勇气吗？

我把Kevin的原话摘录在下面，以资纪念

Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts...

In building and shaping the site I've always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We've always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community. Occasionally we step in to remove stories that violate our terms of use (eg. linking to pornography, illegal downloads, racial hate sites, etc.). So today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.

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.

Digg on,

Kevin