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Urgent--Us Government shuts down 73,000 blogs

The US Government has stepped in and shut down 73,000 blogs on the Blogetery web hosting site have been shut down by the government.   Their ISP shut the website down based on the government warning them about "content hosted on the site."

There is no further word on what that is.

Talk about using a nuke to kill a fly.  Assuming there is some objectionable content (child porn, file sharing, terrorist support), there is an easier way.  Just pull the plug on those offending sites.

I can't help but wonder what is really behind this and if this is a dry run for the Obama Regime to try and pull the plug on conservative sites on the internet as we get closer to the election.

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Permalink Reply by Phil on July 18, 2010 at 12:21pm
I don't trust the net....period!
Permalink Reply by Vern Shotwell on July 18, 2010 at 1:27pm
Here's a fair list of search engines. Lexis Nexis is useful for public records. Bing is not so bad, Bing

But I'm not sure which is best!
Permalink Reply by Vern Shotwell on July 20, 2010 at 6:10am
True: Google admits to tracking you, at least to provide custom ads on your searches; the date therefore exists for abuse. Read the book "Planet Google"
Permalink Reply by Judson Phillips on July 19, 2010 at 6:29am
This story is not being picked up by anyone other than the limited media that covered it. This is very alarming.
Permalink Reply by GRAMPA aka Donald C Sewell on July 19, 2010 at 12:03pm
Why are they doing this.....oh! I forgot.
"Never let a crisis go to waste" Now we (The Fed) can solve it.
Whats next? Close down Newspapers. Internet.............
Permalink Reply by WALTER KLUKSA on July 19, 2010 at 12:36pm
WHAT" S NEXT? WHATEVER THEY WANT. THEY ARE SHOWING US THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT AND NO ONE CAN STOP THEM.. EXECUTIVE ORDER MY A**.
THATS THE WHOLE POINT -- NO ONE CAN STOP THEM, GIVING THOSE DEMS FULL CLOUT TO PASS WHATEVER THEY WANT HAS DOOMED US TO NO ONE GETTING ANY LEGAL CLOUT TO EVEN SANCTION THEM.

THEY KNOW IT. THEY HAVE TESTED THE WATERS AND HAVE SEEN THEY CANNOT BE STOPPED. SO HERE IT COMES .. ARIZONA FIRST THEN THE REST OF US.
Permalink Reply by Clay McKinney on July 19, 2010 at 1:21pm
This from C-Net, a respected source of computer industry news: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010923-261.html

It seems the FBI told the web host that one of their sites had links to Al Quaida, bomb-making tips, and a hit list. The host felt like this was a clear violation of their terms of service and shut the site down.

What SHOULD have happened is the web host should have told Blogerty to remove the offending bloggers. But it looks like the bad guy here is the over-reacting web host, not the FBI, and not Obama.
Permalink Reply by Don Davis on July 19, 2010 at 2:06pm
What SHOULD have happened is the web host should have told Blogerty to remove the offending bloggers. But it looks like the bad guy here is the over-reacting web host, not the FBI, and not Obama.

Ok, here's the setup.

Burstnet is the ISP for a guy (Blogerty) that setup a free wordpress hosting for people to use. It was an unregulated blog for anyone to post anything, and they didn't have to pay for it.

This guy had ONE account with Burstnet.

With his ONE account, he created a blog server. That server had all of the accounts on it that he was in control of.

That server had a bad history apparently, as Burstnet said "Due to the history of abuse and on going abuse on this 'bn.***********' server. We have opted to terminate this server, effective immediately. This termination applies to: bn.affiliateplex.com"

It isn't up to Burstnet to go into the guy's account, and selectively delete individual blogs in a list of thousands of blogs.

They just canceled their ONE account that had problems - Blogerty's.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=964013
Permalink Reply by Phil on July 21, 2010 at 9:48am
I think we got to the bottom of it by now Clay. It's good we stay on top of any info. and try to find the TRUTH about EVERYTHING!!
Permalink Reply by Voice4thePeople.org on July 19, 2010 at 1:24pm
More info:

Click here..
Permalink Reply by Richard Wienman on July 19, 2010 at 1:28pm
I think server links to AlQueda and bomb making instructions are a good reason to shut down a site....that said, after investigation of those responsible, site should be allowed to restart
Permalink Reply by Alvin on July 19, 2010 at 1:39pm
Careful to not jump to conclusions here. CNET reported today that the site was shut down by the hosting provider it went through: Burst.net. This happened after the FBI requested information on servers that hosted blogs detailing bomb instructions and "hit lists" for personnel... basically al-Qaeda terrorist information. Posting this information, according to Burst.net employees, is a violation of the hosting provider's terms of service.

Being from the telecommunications field for work... I see this as more probably than a government crackdown against peoples' first amendment rights. You'd be surprised how often hosting providers remove blogs / news postings like this daily.

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