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by Jeff Davis

Helium.com reports: “The United States Government shut down about 73,000 WordPress blogs on a single Web site in a move that some fear signals an increasing disregard for individual free speech rights. The action follows the high profile government seizure of seven online movie sites weeks ago. The U.S. move dwarfs current Chinese government activity that shut down only dozens of blogs in China. Recently targeted by federal action, the free WordPress blogging site Blogetery abruptly went 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 (a) 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 federal involvement in the incident.”

What it’s all coming down to is that free speech really isn’t free. If you support radical views, you’ll need to own your own website, your own server and be your own host too.

The article notes “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.”

The Obama regime is flexing its muscles, seeing how much they can wipe out in one fell swoop. They already have a law in place that allows Obama to pull a “kill switch” and shut down the entire Net in the event of a “national emergency.” And we all know who will define what constitutes a national emergency, don’t we?

The Dems see the First and Second Amendments as “problems” not inalienable Rights of the people. Wordpress had been a bastion of free speech and Obama has gotten rid of it using a few technical violations of copyright laws as an excuse.