Everyone, watch it with the mocking. If you can't post without personally attacking someone, then don't post. And, please read the rules again if you have to:
http://www.politicalfray.com/faq.php?faq=rules#faq_frules
notimpressed, the issue here though is that that website had 70k+ user created blogs on it. Members have the ability to post content on that site, much like everyone does on this one. If one member broke a law, should all the blogs be taken down because of it or should the service provider (Blogetery) be notified so they can remove the one illegal blog? Legally, the host may have acted within the law just due to their T.O.S., but that does not mean the reaction was the best one.
If someone made a post with such content on this site and my host or law enforcement officials saw the post before I got a chance to see and delete it, I only hope that they wouldn't take this whole site down before at least giving me a chance to delete it. Now if Blogetery was warned and didn't act, that's another story.
edit: Okay, so apparently the site had a history of such content and I am guessing it wasn't dealt with properly, in which case this could be a reasonable thing to do even though it sucks for all the innocent people who were hosted with them and had nothing to do with it. Then again, they could've always moved to hosting themselves, where they would be able to control those things themselves or gone with a larger presence- one with their own hosting and better legal backing, such as Google's Blogger service. Still not sure on what happened to ipbfree though and whether this is related.
