Midknight Review -- new and revised: 73,000 sites shut down for "copyright violations." Midknight Review has been visited by the "Executive Office of the President just yesterday.

U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs

Written by enigmax on July 16, 2010

After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown. Now it appears that a free blogging platform has been taken down by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S. authorities on grounds of “a history of abuse”. More than 73,000 blogs are out of action as a result.

Hot on the heels of recent threats from Vice President Joe Biden and Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel directed at sites offering unauthorized movies and music, last month U.S. authorities targeted several sites they claimed were connected to the streaming of infringing video material. . . . .

Fears remain, however, that this action is only the beginning, and that more sites will be targeted as the months roll on. Indeed, TorrentFreak has already received information that other sites, so far unnamed in the media, are being monitored by the authorities on copyright grounds.

Now, according to the owner of a free WordPress platform which hosts more than 73,000 blogs, his network of sites has been completely shut down on the orders of the authorities. . . . .. . READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE >>>>

Editor's notes: the readship should know that the headline was carried on DRUDGE , a right leaning news portal but not on Memeorandum, a left leaning portal. Both sites are fair minded in recording their headlines but each is clearly left or right in their postings. In this case, the story of 73,000 blogs shut down because of copyright infringement should be a huge story on any news portal. Apparently, Memeorandum does not agree.

The sites that we found shut down were those allowing for the download of music and etc. -- jds.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

73,000 sites shut down for "copyright violations." Midknight Review has been visited by the "Executive Office of the President just yesterday.

U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs

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