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Censorship Issue Slams into US

The debate has raged for months now about the internet censorship issue that is plaguing Australia, China, and other nations. The US and the rest of the Western World have stood firmly on the side of internet freedoms and neutrality while the Aussie government has used the online casinos as a scapegoat for the internet filtering and censorship plans. The issue though has fallen directly onto the shores of the US, but not about the online casino gambling issue as some suspected but because a hosting company has suddenly and without warning silenced the voices of as many as 70,000 bloggers who used the blogging platform Blogetery, an open source platform that ran off of the Burst.net hosting services. The situation has gotten quite a bit complicated in the past several weeks as the New York Times is investigating the situation.

The initial internet censorship fears are born out of the claim that Burst.net shut down Blogetery and the potentially 70,000 blogs because of alleged federal government concerns that the blogging platform was being used by terrorist groups to spread information and develop a hit list of American nationals. The founder of the Blogetery platform did not design the platform as an outlet for illegal and terrorist activity and claims he told the NY Times that Burst.net did not tell him that they were shutting down the site, nor did the hosting company check to make sure that the federal government fears were valid. This latest incident plays right into the fears that have surfaced over the past several months from internet censorship interest groups who are concerned that all of the blogs on this platform were taken down because of a small number of sites that the FBI and federal officials claim were supporting the terrorist groups.

This incident is a clear indication that there is monitoring occurring of the internet no matter how large and vast – this is a valid note for the online casinos that believe that they are flying under the government radar…the government is watching and taking action.