French Blogs Walk the Line……Get shut down

Several French based blogs have been shut down and the proprietors arrested over the past couple of days. One blog entitled “Hardcore” was reported to post violent anti-establishment messages with post titles like “Destroy France” which French prosecutors say violate French standards laws. The creators of that blog was arrested and are facing criminal charges, their tenure has been since changed to house arrest.

Skyrock which is the company that hosted the blog was reported to say that’s it not uncommon for there company to shut down blogs that violate their terms of service, in some extreme cases they even alert the police; as in this case.