70,000 blogs shut down

Blogetry.com, home to about 70,000 users, was shut down last week. Blogetry.com's host, Burst.net, decided to pull the plug on the site after getting an urgent request from the FBI. The reason for the immediate discontinuing of Blogetry's service was initially unknown or very sketchy, some speculating about copyright infringements, and there was no prior warning  given from Burst.net to to the user(s) of the page(s) that was in violation of the User Agreement.

A few days ago though, further information from Burst.net was released listing that the reason for shutting down Blogetry.com was that terrorist material was hosted on the site, including manuals on how to make bombs and also supposedly  an al-Qaeda hitlist naming targets to be eliminated.

The ironic thing in this whole story though is that the Burst.net employee who recieved the FBI's notification misunderstood the agency's intention; thinking that the FBI would like to seize Blogetry.com's servers, the employee shut them down. The FBI's request however wasn't intenting that at all but  involved a federal law that allows providers to voluntarily disclose any information to the police.

Sure, mistakes happens, it's part of being human. However, in my opinion, there should be a clear chain of command when it comes to the decision of shutting down a whole site with 70,000 users and not solely based on a single persons interpretation.