73,000 Wordpress blogs shut down by U.S. Government

[Ognir]

Anyone know anymore about this one?

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/73000 ... -20100716/

This is alarming. Torrent news site TorrentFreak is now reporting that Wordpress host Blogetery has been shut down by United States authorities... along with all 73,000 Blogetery-hosted blogs.

Although details are still very tentative, here's what we know: Blogetery's entire site has been taken down, and the company's ISP is claiming that they had to terminate Blogetery's account immediately after being ordered to do so by law enforcement officials, "due to material hosted on the server."

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

Although TorrentFreak speculates that this is part of a recent Homeland Security effort to take down file sharing sites, that doesn't quite make sense: surely in that case Blogetery would have been asked to pull specific infringing blogs, not have the rug yanked out from under them.

No, the extreme response taken here by U.S. Authorities implies some sort of believed terrorist connection or child pornography ring, not just a handful of warez and MP3 blogs. Even so, though, unless Blogetery itself is suspect of harboring terrorists or child pornographers, it's hard to condone this sort of extreme action that has instantly silenced over 73,000 users, the majority of whom are doubtlessly innocent of any wrong-doing.

Hopefully, we'll get more details of this developing story soon.

[Christopher Marlowe]

When/If the US government shuts down the internets sytem of tubes, this is probably how it will look; Scenes from coming attractions.

We had a TIU post months ago where we were considering what to do in case that happens. Was anything resolved?

(I don't know jack about squat. I just type on a Mac.)

[ahaze]

I found a bunch of articles mentioning this Blogetery shut-down on the heels of a crack-down on media streaming sites, and all articles note the vaporous allegations.  Then I found this statement at _http://smartech.blogetery.com/

After being BurstNet customer for 7 months our server was terminated without any notification or explanation.

We're trying to resolve the situation.

You can find details in this  (*http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=964013) thread on webhostingtalk forum.

It looks like 'affiliateplex' leads the discussion on the noted thread representing the administration of Blogetery and how events have developed since getting unplugged.

Maybe there'll be a day when TIU has to adopt the ol' AOL mass distribution approach with dedicated browsers. :crazy: