Excerpt from: http://www.helium.com/items/1893892-why-73000-wordpress-blogs-were-shut-down-by-the-us-government
by Bruce Tyson
Recently targeted by federal action, the free WordPress blogging site Blogetery abruptly came offline after hosting provider BurstNet complied with undisclosed demands from authorities. A message viewable upon visiting the Blogetery site gives this message from its owner: “After being BurstNet customer for 7 months our server was terminated without any notification or explanation.” A link on the site leads to a forum called Web Hosting Talk, where the site operator has posted correspondence with BurstNet, that suggests feederal involvement in the incident.
Those first to learn about the Blogetery shutdown seemed to think that the move was due to intellectual property concerns. The online discussion supposedly with the Blogetery owner suggests that users of his site prompted frequent cease and desist demands from copyright holders to which he responded with appropriate action against users of his site.
Original speculation seemed to be misguided upon the release of comments from BurstNet that disclosed that the action against Blogetery was not “typical” and required instant compliance with federal demands to close the entire Web site. Some reports seem to suggest that intellectual property rights actions typically target specific users of a service rather than the entire operation. Now, some fear that the suffering of the innocent together with the guilty as the free speech of many appears to have been infringed by government action. Such fear supposes, of course, that not all 73,000 blogs on Blogetery were lawbreakers. Some consider the magnitude of the federal action as an indication that the Blogetery site itself and its owner may have been involved in some type of wrongdoing.
BurstNet and authorities have been mum on specific details of the case, saying only that they have refunded the payments from the Web site owner owner.
There is speculation on some of the industry forums that is wasn’t a cut and dry case of “copyright infringement” it was more likely kiddie porn that was being served up.
More than likely the owner nor the hosting company was aware that this was going on.
The servers have been taken as evidence and we all know that it could take a long time before they get their forensic studies done on the servers. Until then, the (potentially)poor cat that owned that site will not know what is going on until they press charges on him or give the hosting company back their servers months from now.
So, I guess what I am saying, unless someone can authoritatively tell us different, this was not a hit job by Obama’s minions.
I don’t look forward to the changes we will have to live with in the near future and longer term future brought on buy the FRAUD in the Whitehouse, but I also don’t like to jump to knee jerk assumptions.