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<\/a>out. While the rumors are spreading around Web that potential buyer of Digg might be Microsoft<\/a> (although they decline<\/a> that) angry digg users are taking on the site with the promise they never return to it if the Redmond\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s giant gets its hands on the popular user generated news<\/a> site. We have speculated<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0a lot over the past months as to what might be the reason why such a mainstream-like popular site does not get its long-waited exit despite all of its attempts it seems what is attracting potential suitors to Digg (its massive number of users) is what might be scaring them away.<\/p>\nHere is an extraction, as found on Techrunch, of the comments<\/a> on Digg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s page under the news that Microsoft might be the potential buyer of Digg.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Digg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s saga continues.<\/p>\n More<\/p>\n http:\/\/blog.digg.com\/?p=114<\/a> While reading over our daily dose of web 2.0 news and stories across our favorite technology blogs, we came across a very interesting theory being discussed on a few of these blogs. Based on what we have read, and understood, it might turn out that Digg has a track record of surrendering to the mob […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,43,34,21,140,204,118,33,72,13,79],"tags":[1373,228,227,1378,230,229,1402,745],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquisitions","category-advertising","category-business","category-google","category-internet","category-media","category-microsoft","category-money","category-public-companies","category-technology","category-web-20","tag-acquisitions","tag-allen-company","tag-digg","tag-google","tag-investment-firm","tag-mergers","tag-microsoft","tag-user-generated-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThis is terrible news. Lets see if we can have yet another viable outlet bought up by huge conglomerates which try to feed us what we are allowed to think and censor our beliefs. I tell you what. If digg is sold, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not coming here anymore! Kevin please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let this happen. Tell us this is about more than money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nhttp:\/\/digg.com\/tech_news\/Google_Microsoft_Bidding_For_Digg<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/digg.com\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/03\/09\/digg-users-are-doing-their-best-to-kill-an-acquisition\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/05\/01\/digg-surrenders-to-mob\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/03\/07\/google-microsoft-bidding-for-digg\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/2007\/12\/19\/digg-guys-are-up-for-sale-again-quietly\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.quantcast.com\/digg.com<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/12\/17\/for-sale-used-social-voting-site-asking-price-300-million-goes-by-the-name-of-digg\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.hoovers.com\/allen-&-company\/–ID__51026–\/free-co-factsheet.xhtml<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2006\/12\/28\/no-acquisition-for-digg-raise-series-b-round-instead\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/11\/07\/just-sell-digg-already-jay\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/nextnetnews.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/why-nobody-buys-diggcom.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2007\/12\/17\/source-digg-hires-bank-hoping-to-sell-for-300-million-or-more\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/nextnetnews.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/diggcom-fights-spam-scam-games.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.pronetadvertising.com\/articles\/latest-digg-payola-exposed.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/valleywag.com\/tech\/rumormonger\/digg-close-to-a-300-million-sale-320145.php<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/valleywag.com\/tech\/sun-valley\/whos-selling-whos-buying-at-the-allen-confab-276716.php<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/fortune_archive\/2004\/06\/28\/374371\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"