[Infowarrior] - Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service

[Richard Forno]

The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service
Written by Ernesto on April 16, 2008

http://torrentfreak.com/baywords-pirate-bay-blog-080416/

In their ever continuing battle to free the Internet, The Pirate Bay has now
launched an uncensored blogging service, called Baywords. The service is
intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write
whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut down by their blog
host.

The Pirate Bay is known for defending people¹s right to freedom of speech on
the Internet, and this is exactly what motivated them to start this new
blogging service.

Brokep, one of the co-founders of the site, told TorrentFreak that the idea
to start a blogging service came up when the weblog of one of his friends
was taken down from Wordpress recently, for linking to copyrighted material.

This, of course, goes against the ³uncensored web² philosophy of The Pirate
Bay team, and they didn¹t hesitate to start their own blogging service,
Baywords, using Wordpress as their blogging engine.

On the frontpage of the newly launched service Brokep writes: ³Many blogs
are being shut down for uncomfortable thoughts and ideas. We will not do
that. Our goal is to protect freedom of speech and your thoughts. As long as
you don¹t break any Swedish laws in your blog, we will defend it².

In a response, Matt Mullenweg from WordPress told TorrentFreak that he
supports Pirate Bay¹s Baywords, but he assured us that Wordpress.com would
never take down a blog for posting deviating thoughts or ideas.

³WordPress.com supports free speech and doesn¹t shut people down for
³uncomfortable thoughts and ideas², in fact we¹re blocked in several
countries because of that. However as a US-based companies we must comply
with US laws, which means if the primary purpose of a blog is distributing
illegal material it¹s not a good fit for WordPress.com,² Matt said.

Baywords is currently working on expanding the feature list to include
support for domain redirects and improved stats. The service is ad-free for
now, but Brokep told TorrentFreak that there will be ads blended into the
blog design later, to cover the expenses.

This is not the first time The Pirate Bay has started a service where people
can publish whatever they want, without being censored. They already created
an image hosting service for this reason, and a YouTube competitor is about
to follow soon.

For people who are considering moving their Wordpress or Blogger account
over to Baywords, importing is pretty straightforward and compatible with
all the popular blog platforms. Don¹t forget to add TorrentFreak to your
blogroll!

Update: Matt Mullenweg¹s response was added to the article after publication
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