Voices » Markos Moulitsas http://voices.allthingsd.com from other Web sites Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:09:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Liberal Blogosphere Proves Trivially Easy to Destroy http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090109/liberal-blogosphere-proves-trivially-easy-to-destroy/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090109/liberal-blogosphere-proves-trivially-easy-to-destroy/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:03:30 +0000 Owen Thomas http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=7472 By Owen Thomas, Managing Editor, Valleywag

Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. After hackers took down SoapBlox, a one-man blog-hosting company which runs local political Web sites, a silenced liberal commentariat found out how true that was.

SoapBlox grew out of Scoop, the software used on DailyKos, Markos Moulitsas’s left-of-center superblog. Paul Preston, its developer, found himself running 25 different sites–the likes of My Left Wing, Blue Hampshire, West Michigan Rising, and Swing State Project. (All politics is local!)

And yet SoapBlox remained a one-man band. So when still-unidentified hackers infiltrated SoapBlox’s servers, causing them to be taken offline, Preston despaired.

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