Definitely a very heavy-handed move on Google's part. They could at least have told these people why their site was being shut down. The fact that they didn't

Definitely a very heavy-handed move on Google's part. They could at least have told these people why their site was being shut down. The fact that they didn't says a lot about how Google actually views its customers. I would love to be able to donate to the site's owners to keep their site running on another hosting service.