—Walter Cronkite after God asked what the latest news was.
On July 27 2009 14:04 Zzoram wrote: can someone edit the OP with the info about 4chan being DDoS'd hard, hence the block?
the following is my opinion:
It is claimed that AT&T blocked 4chan because DDOS attacks, coming from at&t users - targeted at 4chan, were causing too much traffic for at&t. this is ridiculous for many reasons.
It's like banning a kid from a public school because some bullies were picking on him, when the school could easily just ban the bullies.
especially we're talking the site and organization powerful enough to influence and turn over how the TIME MAGAZINE TOP 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE was all one sided thanks to these folks...
UPDATED 6: 4chan’s current gameplan evolving over at Encyclopedia Dramatica (Great stuff!). Also, from reports gathered on Reddit, it seems this block allegedly is because of massive DDoS-attacks against img.4chan.org. The reports doesn’t say anything about why AT&T would block 15.5% of all US internet users from using a specific website without any warning, though.
Over-reacting to a normal ISP response of taking down sites that are hit with massive DDoS-attacks until they are stopped? Sounds like 4chan to me.
EPT
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