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: 73,000 blacked blog without notice

More than 70,000 blog closed overnight, with no explanation. A decision motivated by the request for unspecified "security forces". It happened a few days ago Blogetry.com the service, a platform based on Wordpress and hosted by the American Burstnet provider, and it was only after the welter of speculation raised by Network of sites like ReadWriteWeb and CNET, that it has come to make a minimum of clarity about the incident. Needless to say, there is the hand of Al Qaeda, some of the blogs hosted by Blogetry were in fact related to the organization and would have contained harmful material, such as a list of American citizens to be deleted and the instructions to create a bomb homemade.

According to a Cnet Joe Marr, head of technology development Burstnet, the FBI was to notify the provider of the existence of such content on the blog platform and have asked the operator, according to a protocol called "Voluntary Emergency Disclosure of Information", to have the details on the actors.

Within the request, the FBI made reference to a clause that allows providers to close on their own sites involved in situations that could endanger the lives of American citizens. Burstnet The clerk who received the mail, again as reported by Marr, would prove more realistic than the king, going as far as to obscure the server, which the FBI did not have the power to impose without going through a judicial order.

short, Burstnet acted without being forced to do so, driven by the fact that well in the past Blogetry was characterized by violations of the conditions of use of the hosting service. The further investigation of colleagues in Cnet, it seems that the material Content on blogs and attributed to Al Qaeda was in part related to this online magazine, "Inspire" reported by many in recent times, as a site of recruitment for aspiring members of the terrorist organization.

In this quagmire, several points remain obscure and perplexing aspects. First, those who pay compensation to 69,999 unsuspecting and innocent people who have seen the Blogetry overnight their sites disappear from the Net? It is fair to punish one, punish thousands? And how to define the behavior of Burstnet, who had waited ten days before issuing a - string - a statement the incident?

To complicate things even more is the fact that a week after the close of Blogetry, another similar service but hosted by another provider, the bulletin board of announcements and messages Ipbfree.com. was suddenly darkened. Also here from day to day. Again without explanation. Site administrators said they were "obliged by law" to the silence.