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TorrentFreak is reporting that a company, Blogetery, that hosted about 73,000 blogs, has been shut down by US authorities. Details are, admittedly, sketchy at this point, but the entire site has been taken down, and the company’s ISP claims that they had to terminate the account immediately due to the “request of law enforcement officials, due to material hosted on the server.” The ISP also claimed:
“this was not a typical case, in which suspension and notification would be the norm. This was a critical matter brought to our attention by law enforcement officials. We had to immediately remove the server.”That seems odd. If there was problematic content from some users, why not just take down that content or suspend those users. Taking down all 73,000 blogs seems… excessive. TorrentFreak speculates that this may be a part of the recent Homeland Security efforts to shut down file sharing site, and points to some evidence that there were at least a few Blogetery blogs that shared copyrighted works. However, no one’s talking, and the ISP seems spooked, saying that it’s “serious”:
Seems like overkill to me.
Found by ECA.
If you follow the link and read the posts, it is pretty clear the owner violated the Terms of Service of his provider.
Someone, the provider can’t say whom, had an issue, so the server was taken down.
No conspiracy, just a violation of the law that was handled. The server was removed as evidence.
I think that it is unlikely that a dangerous blog could trigger anything that a bunch of phone calls couldn’t do. There is more than one way to communicate!!
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of 73000 BLOGS…?
BLOGS.
NOT storage locations…BLOGS.
OR did someone setup a COVER to HIDE what was being done.
Someone probably posted how you could make a bomb out of Boraxo, Comet, the red ink from the hearts & diamonds of a certain brand of playing cards and the white bits from candy corn packed in a 20-ounce plastic Mr. Pibb bottle.
Or maybe how you could interfere in normal political discourse and cause untold chaos by just making a bunch of sh*t up and endlessly repeating it…
Does anyone know where to find a listing of the blog names er’ info they “specialized” in?
Maybe someone had the collage records of Barry we’ve been waiting for……………………. ……………………………………………………………………………
Or maybe the server itself was hacked and being used as a info highway?
Either way, letting them get away with “NO EXPLANATION” is something we better not do. No matter what side of the realm you’re on, we should all be screaming foul and demanding answers. As this blog, and the SPLC and ACLU could be on the next one, or maybe even code pink could be ripped down?
By the way, George did have everything to do with this, he had to have after all, since, according to our historic president, George is still in charge of all his mess. And if he isn’t then isn’t it time to find out who is, and if no one, maybe we should elect a president. Alright, I’m done…..
My guess would be that the content of the blogs themselves had nothing at all to do with it. What classified material has had the government most up in arms the last few months? The documents supposedly in Wikileaks’ possession. No proof of that possession exists, to my knowledge. What if the information had actually been cached on, oh, some random server somewhere, lost among the 1′s and 0′s of 73,000 essentially harmless blogs? Purely wild speculation, of course.
“Sensitive national security information, and the whole server system was confiscated.”
That would be my guess, too.
Law Enforcement?
I wonder what law they are enforcing?
My guess is it actually had to do with money
Of some sort…
Maybe some gov’t misinformation site was among the 73,000. When they resurface they’ll have instant cred: “DHS closed us down!” It’s BS-o-meter of 100%, the question is wherein lies the excrement.
How the government saves the for profit media (press). Perhaps by killing much of its “free” or less costly competition. Especially if these competing sources of news and opinion, aren’t financially allied to either political party. And might threaten the upcoming election results, in some way. Nice timing, don’t you think?
Followup: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/07/19/blogetery-owners-shut-down-bombs-al-qaeda/
“FBI Warning of Al Qaeda Hit Lists, Bomb-Making Tips Led to Shutdown of Blogging Site
A popular website that hosted more than 70,000 bloggers was shut down suddenly last week after the FBI informed its chief technology officer that the site contained hit lists, bomb-making documents and links to Al Qaeda materials, it was reported on Monday…”
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100719/11461510279.shtml
MORE on the subject.
ITS SAID..
the FBI asked for nothing..
Blogitary SHUT it all down.