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Irate, Tireless Minority - 73,000 blogs gone

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Blogetery, a server was taken down by it's host, Burstnet recently. Blogetery provided free hosting to ~73,000 blogs. IS this a freedom of speech violation or simply business and law enforcement as usual? Update on 5:38pm 7/21/10: Upon looking for more information, I found a report here on the matter which was referenced on the Dept. of Homeland Security's "Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report for 21 July 2010"' According to the report, " “It was revealed that a link to terrorist material, including bomb-making instructions and an al-Qaeda ‘hit list', " Furthermore, it appears, from the report, that it was Burstnet's decision to take down the entire site rather than just the offending blog. I'm still wondering, why take down the entire site? It seems counterproductive to good business to make 72,999 customers upset for the actions of one. It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.

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