AT&T and Cognet puts the ban on 4chan

[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

"This censorship is not only a huge inconvinience to the users of 4chan, but a bold move showing AT&T's true intentions: Telecom corporations' control over internet content. Undoubtedly, this is the first shot fired in the war for net neutrality."

“OH, SHI-" - AT&T, upon realising the scale of the immenent PR shitstorm

4chan is retaliating by launching a raid this Tuesday by 'Tweeting' the deaths of AT&T's CEO's in hopes of fallen stock.

[My proxies fail, though I'll set up another. Any luck on your circumventing? Mine stops at unknown.xeef.net, no news on what that is there.]

This.

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[superbus.livejournal.com]

To be fair, this was in response to a massive DDoS attack, reportedly.

[batchfile.livejournal.com]

do you have a source on that?

the only thing new about this is from the register.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/27/att_censorship_block/

however shall i live without lolcats?!?!
< /sarcasm >

[heinous_bitca.livejournal.com]

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/27/054230 in the comments, according to the edited OP.

[penguin-attie.livejournal.com]

http://www.merit.edu.nyud.net/mail.archives/nanog/msg19609.html

Also, it's going back up, AT&T stopped dropping packets. Still being DDosed though, hence everyone getting stuck somewhere along the way.

[batchfile.livejournal.com]

it'd be nice if some of the powers that be would speak up on the issue.

otherwise worst case scenarios come to certain minds far too easily and cause even more trouble.

[penguin-attie.livejournal.com]

I agree, definite lack of communication from AT&T. But then again, there was probably no one there in the middle of the night, maybe they will say something once everyone is awake & at the office.

[jarad.livejournal.com]

From Cogent in the UK, I get to unknown.xeex.net on a traceroute. In a browser it loads, but very very slowly.

[silveryrose.livejournal.com]

do a trace to zip.4chan.org. You should see two hops after unknown.xeex.net, one of (for me) doesn't respond and the other should be 207.126.64.176 which is the IP of zip.

I've been going through my server at The Planet and it's been slow even with lynx from ssh. I think the loading speed topped out at 1.9KiB/s

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

'Tweeting the deaths of CEO's'? What kind of 2yr old crap is that? I take that back--the 2yr old would be more mature than that. :-/

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

Wait, you expected something non-juvenile from 4chan??????

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

Heh. Valid point. Be funny if it turns out that AT&T *was* responding to a legitimate problem here, though. :-) The Encyclopedia Dramatica article mentions spoofing by a 'rival' site. Though I do wonder--is the papercraft forum still accessible? If so, then I'll have lost any interest I had in the issue, given some of the reasons I haven't bothered with the rest of the site in years. :-) (Hmmm... I wonder if people would have been so up in arms if AT&T had said the reason for the blocking was due to copyright issues on the artwork that's been stolen and posted on there...)

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, as long as rumors about CEO deaths can affect stock prices, they will continue to be used.

[soldierx.livejournal.com]

if 4chan was removed the world would probably be a better place anyways.

[canray.livejournal.com]

True, but the point is that the Internet needs places like 4chan just to prove that we can put up what we want and not be censored. (*Cough*China and Google*Cough*).

We may not like it, but we don't have to look at it now, do we? That's choice.

Right now, those on AT&T don't have that choice, in a country that is based on having that right for everyone. (Of course, we know how much the foundation of said country has been doing recently.).

And hopefully that's understandable, I'm going back to bed.

[cheezemeister-x.livejournal.com]

What country is that? If you're talking about the US, I pretty sure that you don't have the right to "put up what (you) want and not be censored".

[fearrett.livejournal.com]

As long as whatever you're putting up isn't hate speech or infringing upon other peoples rights, it's all kosher, as far as I know.

Keep in mind I'm not american, simply a brother from the north.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

If 4chan was removed, there wouldn't be a central place to stay away from.

Besides, from what I can tell, 4chan isn't the depths of depravity for the internet - it's more like a halfway house.