U.S Authorities shut down 73,000 blogs

[Axxman]

I know its fun to assume the worst everytime something happens, but sometimes you have to just go with common sense. This isn't about the 70,000+ blogs...its about the host of those blogs not monitoring activity close enough and providing a system that allows for illegal activity. The host also clearly admits to having numerous legal issues with the site by admitting "to handling many copyright-related cease and desists in the past." It is the responsibilty of the host to make sure he is not providing a platform for illegal activity and this was clearly an issue for the host if he is handling alot of C&D issues.

Lastly, it didn't even require law enforcement to shut this host down since BurstNET had the right to shut this down on their own. Chances are that BurstNET was informed of an investigation and because of the "many copyright related issues" in dealing with this host...they were perfectly within their rights to shut it down:

From BurstNET TOS -- "Your use of the Internet is subject to all applicable local, state, national, and international laws and regulations, Without limiting the other rights available to BurstNET

[Axxman]

The shuttting down of worthy is what I am thinking of ...the more sites it is linked to the more chance there is of getting caught up in this censorship is how I am reading it

Hiya Ladypeartree...

I doubt you have anything to worry about.

First, I'd be willing to bet that the host that provides our servers is not some free and unmonitored outift that caters to illegal activity. The host in question that got shut down was a newer web host and by his own admission hadn't set up any security or monitoring of the 70,000+ blogs he hosted. He is literally taking the "ignorance" excuse and basically hiding behind "I didn't know what was on my own server." Thats not gonna fly when illegal activity is involved.

Second, I seriously doubt that Worthy Boards has any associations with outside sources that would get us in trouble. There is a HUGE difference in being associated with legit operations like Facebook and Google...who have tons of safeguards and tons of staff (including lawyers) dedicated to protecting their investments and making sure that they are in compliance with the law. Also, operations like that have standard proceedures in place for working with the Federal gov't in these types of situations.

We are talking about a guy who set up a free hosting service (within the last year) and had no safeguards in place. He basically waited for someone else to find illegal activity on his servers and issue him a cease and desist order before he dealt with it. It is highly likely that someone posted something very illegal (hacker script; kiddie porn?) on his servers that got the feds involved...then the server providers just said "enough is enough" and shut him down.

Worthy Boards, thanks to our great leadership at the top, is NOTHING like this Blogetry site...and has NOTHING to worry about.