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."

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[skelterjohn]

Government shuts down one private website.

Re:US government forgotten their first amendment?

[DaveV1.0]

Blogs do not have the journalistic integrity that "the press" had and generally still does have. Granted, mainstream journalism is slowly sliding down to match the blogosphere's integrity and journalistic standards, but they aren't quite there yet.