Digg Error - Promoting Illegal Porn
Digg went down for about thirty minutes today. During that time an “out of service” message was shown. I clicked on one of the links as shown by the red arrow. Story continues below…
The link was referring people to a hacked blog, and this blog had hundreds of spam porn links, some of them offering illegal images (apparently). I didn’t click the link to find out. Digg’s “out of service” page must have been seen by millions of people, and thousands would have clicked the links to the inappropiate pages. A standard “out of service” page would be more appropriate when these things happen.
13. June 2008 at 18:10
You know, those are just links to porn. The intention is not to drive people, but search engines to it so they rank higher for keywords.
I don’t hold any harm or responsibility upon Digg. They just have a list of Web sites people may check out. Perhaps now after you raise this to their attention, they will remove it from their list of sites.
Again, Digg isn’t promoting illegal porn, despite the misleading title.
~Joe
13. June 2008 at 19:21
Many porn spammers will deceptively advertise their sites’ contents, and since they are more interested in making money than going to jail I would suspect that is probably the case here as well, although of course you never know.
Definitely safer not to click on those links, and not just for legality reasons either. Often times hacked blogs will be used as a venue to deliver viruses to people’s computers.
13. June 2008 at 20:41
I don’t think that I would blame digg for this, the spamer just picked a very oppertune time to hack that blog. It’s almost as bad as using internet explorer to surf the net. You should try Firefox for your browsing and screen shots.