70,000 Blogs Taken Offline after FBI Investigates Terrorist Links

Blogetery, a company providing a blogging platform to over 70,000 bloggers has been taken offline by its hosting company following investigations by the FBI.  Although only a tiny percentage of the bloggers had posted illegal material, the hosting company Burst.net took the whole platform down.

Implications for SEO across the world could be dramatic as the number of links disappearing from the net could number in the millions.

The offending blogs contained lists of assasination targets in the US, bomb-making tips and messages from Osama bin Laden.

There was no prior warning and many bloggers who had not backed-up their personal blogs may have lost their entire blog archive.


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