US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline

joeszilagyi sends this excerpt from TorrentFreak: "... 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. Blogetery.com has been with host BurstNet for 7 months, but on Friday July 9th the site disappeared. ... Due to the fact that the authorities aren't sharing information and BurstNet are sworn to secrecy, it is proving almost impossible to confirm the exact reason why Blogetery has been completely taken down. The owner does, however, admit to handling many copyright-related cease and desists in the past, albeit in a timely manner as the DMCA requires."

Comments

Re:This is just the beginning.

[the roAm]

"The People"
Look ladies and gentlemen, a libertarian.

Re:The fact is, US is just as bad as China

[ArcherB]

Wake up, pal. You are nowhere near as free as you think you are. Your life is as constrained by our bullshit corporatist state as the Chinese are by their bullshit corporatist state. The only difference is that you are showered with a moronic brain-junk-food commercial pop-culture that has evidently convinced you completely that you are free and can express yourself freely and without limit.

You're not. You are just as enslaved, censored, exploited, and brainwashed as they are. Beware, it is vastly worse than you imagine.

So have the authorities shown up to send you to "reeducation camp"?

No? Then STFU.

Re:The fact is, US is just as bad as China

[spun]

What justifies the massive land grabs that individuals make, claiming ownership and domain of large swathes of land, even if they were in use by others previously? Because they said so?

Your simplistic libertarian views demonstrate that you have only a glib, self serving, and superficial understanding of what freedom means. Freedom is a contract between individuals where both people give up something they value less in order to gain something they value more. As such, freedom is something that is defined by society, not individuals. Individuals, by themselves, have only power. Freedom is a moot concept outside of society. Inside society, it is always a trade off, and it means something far more than "I get to do whatever I want and you can't tell me what to do."

Re:The fact is, US is just as bad as China

[spun]

I've never seen a more self serving and superficial definition of 'freedom.'