Digg found itself in the middle of a classic journalistic dilemma yesterday and made a decision that gives me hope for the future of journalism on the Internet:
Digg’s Kevin Rose decided that its first obligation was to the free flow of information:
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It’s especially interesting since Digg was responding to a censorship demand based on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, because it came on the same day that Google invoked the DMCA as a defense in a similar case.