Is it possible that anonymous blogs, popping out of nowhere without any history, might lack credibility and have ulterior motives? Haha.
Michael Murphy, Professional Faux-Blogger
Murphey maintains an array of anonymous blogs that all spread false information and cloaked FUD attacks by serving up rabid attacks on everything Apple, while sometimes also pretending to be an Apple fan site.
Digg users have been eating up everything Murphey throws out.
For example, Murphey has been working to create rumors of an imminently available new “video iPod,” apparently in an effort to try to get iPod buyers to hold off on their purchases and perhaps consider the Zune.
Murphey has more alter ego aliases on Digg than he has website domain names. At one point he could claim whitebreadmike, MrsMurphy, themurph2099, and several others that have since all been banned for fraud use.
Censoring Digg
Pot, Kettle Black
Astroturf Green
With Digg hiding the identities of the narrow minority of users who subvert the entire system to promote corporate interests, there’s no way to tell for sure.
While Digg occasionally takes action against fraudulent digging, it ignores fraud censorship completely, which is far easier to orchestrate.
With paid propaganda shills faux-blogging Digg’s system full of misinformation, and shamelessly advertising their services to anyone interested, it’s obvious that there’s a profit motive. Without any open accountability, one can only speculate on where the money actually comes from and where it goes.
What the pro-Zune cabal that runs Digg’s censorship committee doesn’t want you to know is that the Zune is in serious sales trouble. That’s a problem that no amount of fake and anonymous blogs can cover up, no matter how much disinformation they spew.
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