The Chinese blogosphere is up in arms as some hosts of weblogs do the
opposite of what they are supposed to do: They delete weblogs, even without
notifying the owners.
The Chinese edition of
Wordpress, introduced recently, has
enraged Chinese webloggers,
writes
China Web2.0 Review. The relationship between the Chinese edition
and Wordpress.com remains unclear, as are the reasons to delete weblogs without notification.
One of China's most famous bloggers,
Wang Jianshuo, last week was suddenly
off-line because his host,
Ipowerweb,
switched him off,
he writes eight days after the incident. He is now struggling to recover three years of
work.
He wrote: "The ISP I use, Ipowerweb.com, found there is some
phishing content on my
site (as they said), and it was their legal responsibility to shut down the
site (also as they said). The result is, they deleted the content I built in
the last three years within one minute. I am working with them to get the data
from the backup server."
