While as freedom of speech doesn't = the freedom to steal, that is not the issue here. The issue is that a few blogs had material the RIAA believed were infringing so they decided to get EVERYONE who was with that host taken down. Whats that? Someone posted a video in the Awesomeness thread with infringing music in the…
Say what you want, they shut it down not because they didn't like what they where saying, but what they where distributing illegally. Those same people can go blog all they want without repercussions of any kind, but if they choose to distribute things illegally, they should and probably will be shut down, again. Freedom…
Freedom of speech has always had limits. You can't yell "fire!" in a crowded theater, nor incite people to riot. You can't publicly defame someone nor threaten to kill them. And, in this case apparently, you can't use a public platform to conduct any kind of criminal activity - that includes distributing copyrighted…
If you're declaring this from a moral standpoint you're entitled to your opinion but from a legal perspective this is totally false. The OCILLA section of the DMCA has safe harbor for OSPs (this includes blogs as they fall under online communication and hosting) and ISPs to protect them from copyright infringement…