BurstNET, the host for the blog platform Blogetery, released a statement today. Blogetery’s 70,000 blogs were shut down with little notice last week, as we reported yesterday.
“BurstNET received a notice of a critical nature from law enforcement officials, and was asked to provide information regarding ownership of the server hosting Blogetry.com. It was revealed that a link to terrorist material, including bomb-making instructions and an al-Qaeda ‘hit list,’ had been posted to the site.”
This was interpreted as a terms-of-service violation against Blogetery as a whole, said the company.
“BurstNET determined that the posted material, in addition to potentially inciting dangerous activities, specifically violated the BurstNET Acceptable Use Policy. This policy strictly prohibits the posting of ‘terrorist propaganda, racist material, or bomb/weapon instructions.’ Due to this violation and the fact that the site had a history of previous abuse, BurstNET elected to immediately disable the system.”
Presumably the “previous abuse” was of copyright violations, which the owner said was dealt with in a timely fashion.
The fairness of shutting down the 69,999 blogs that were innocent for the one that may prove guilty, is up for debate. We have questions in to the company and will post any response if we receive one.
Thanks to Jeremy for the tip.
