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Feds. shut down 73,000 blogs

hypocritexposer

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73,000 WordPress blogs were shut down by the U.S. Government

by Bruce Tyson

The United States Government shut down about 73,000 WordPress blogs on a single Web site in a move that some fear signals an increasing disregard for individual free speech rights. The action follows the high profile government seizure of seven online movie sites weeks ago. The U.S. move dwarfs current Chinese government activity that shut down only “dozens” of blogs in China.
 

Steve

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Why Web host shut down 73,000 blogs a mystery
Blogetery.com, a little-known WordPress platform used by more than 70,000 blogs, was shut down by its Web hosting company mroe than a week ago and nobody seems willing to say why or who is responsible.

BurstNet, the Web-hosting company, informed Blogetery's operator that service was terminated at the request of some law enforcement agency but wouldn't say which one. As for the reason, BurstNet hasn't made that clear either. In an e-mail to Blogetery's operator, BurstNet managers did say, however, that they had little choice but to terminate service.

"Please note that this was not a typical case in which suspension and notification would be the norm," BurstNet wrote to Blogetery's operator. "This was a critical matter brought to our attention by law enforcement officials. We had to immediately remove the server."

BurstNet executives were not immediately available for comment.

Sunday, a spokeswoman for ICE said "while ICE's Internet piracy enforcement efforts are still very much ongoing, we were not involved with the action."

But at this point, it sure doesn't appear to be a generic file-sharing issue.

Hot on the heels of recent threats from Vice President Joe Biden,... Fears remain, however, that this action is only the beginning, and that more sites will be targeted as the months roll on. Indeed, TorrentFreak has already received information that other sites, so far unnamed in the media, are being monitored by the authorities

Now, according to the owner of a free WordPress platform which hosts more than 73,000 blogs, his network of sites has been completely shut down on the orders of the authorities.

Indeed, 73,000 blogs is a significant number to take down in one swoop, regardless of what some users of the site may or may not have been doing. Time will tell if it was indeed a copyright complaint that took down the service but the signs are certainly there. Not so long ago the conclusion that this type of action could be taken on copyright grounds would have been dismissed out of hand, but the current atmosphere seems to be changing.

kinda gestapo like... but I am sure they are stifling free speech for a good reason... :?

like the fact that an artist didn't get his nickle royalty from a CD that you downloaded after your store bought copy melted on the dash..
 

MoGal

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hypocritexposer said:
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The U.S. move dwarfs current Chinese government activity that shut down only “dozens” of blogs in China.

China is a communist country......... there should be no comparison of the US to a communist country....... this is just a prelude of what's coming.....
 
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