As of 6 June 2011, and for several days, Jaluo dot com was subject to several days outage as a result of account suspension.

The reason behind the suspension: The web hosting organization reacted viciously to a complaint about info content published there. A person named Kahenya Kamunyu, who has a client, Nation Media Group, which is East Africa’s Media House, publisher of The Nation newspaper, lodged the complaint directly with the hosting company.

Back in March 2007, 4 years 3 months previously, material had been sent to us for publication then, under the pin-name, ‘Nation_Centre’. It concerned gossip, improprieties & sex scandals allegedly involving upper management (including the CEO) of NMG.

We did not receive any complaint from NMG, or anyone for that matter, until after our site was suspended.

Thereafter, we got the message suspending our site, from the host company, and became aware of our previously published article which it cited.

The site is now functional again.

We are certainly most surprised, that a web hosting company, located in North America or Western Europe, would have reacted that way.

The matter of contention was not that of a technical problem, late bill payment, nor papers from a court order. Rather, it regarded matters of information or opinion made visible in the context of a news / politics / culture discussion forum more than four years ago!

Please view a statement our relevant policy. It is on the Topic Page, “Conditions & Terms”,
http://blog.jaluo.com/?page_id=13133 , a link found in upper right column of the main page.
Sincerely,

Alan Green, for staff of jaluo . com