Bomb-making tips, hit list behind Blogetery closure
Found on CNet News on Sunday, 18 July 2010
The site was shut down after FBI agents informed executives of Burst.net, Blogetery's Web host, late on July 9 that links to al-Qaeda materials were found on Blogetery's servers, Joe Marr, chief technology officer for Burst.net, told CNET.
But Marr said a Burst.net employee erred in telling Blogetery's operator and members of the media that the FBI had ordered it to terminate Blogetery's service. He said Burst.net did that on its own.
Marr said that regardless of the mix-up, Blogetery's service was terminated because bomb-making tips and a "hit list" are an obvious and absolute violation of its terms of service.
As suspected yesterday already, the national security card came into play. However it's worth pointing out that Burst.net decided to kill 73,000 blogs because a handful had questionable information and lied about being ordered to do so. Now that is some colateral damage. I'm sure they would kick Google, Bing and Yahoo too because one can get the same information through those search engines. Paranoid and overreacting people like those at Burst should not be allowed to have customers; hopefully many will switch providers because of that incident.