> Our 96-hour deadline was fast approaching — with compliance demanded by 2am on Saturday — by the time the M&G print edition hit the streets on Friday morning.

> Our 96-hour deadline was fast approaching — with compliance demanded by 2am on Saturday — by the time the M&G print edition hit the streets on Friday morning. Fridays are traditionally the biggest days for online traffic at the M&G. This is when what appears in the weekly paper is published digitally too. [...] But, shortly after 8am on Friday morning, Linode informed us that our account had been suspended for failure to comply. They’d jumped the gun. [...] The M&G Online, a national news publisher and the oldest news site in Africa, had been taken down. Even if Linode really didn't have a single recourse, they still chose to go beyond their legal obligations and shut the site down early, with timing that at least looks deliberately calculated to cause the most damage. They don't deserve your advocacy.