[132545] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wikileaks unreachable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ingo Flaschberger)
Sun Nov 28 19:44:07 2010
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:43:57 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <9FCF4212-0D76-4712-AF6C-EF48DA0DECFF@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> On Nov 28, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Andrew Kirch wrote:
>> On 11/28/2010 4:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>> anyone know why https://www.wikileaks.org/ is not reachable? nations
>>> state level censors trying to close the barn door after the horse has
>>> left?
>
>> Good riddance. The sooner someone gives Julian Assange 230gr of shut
>> the f*** up, the better.
>
> I find it distressing when Network Operators are willing to encourage DDoS'ing of a site. Any site. Especially on an operational list, where politics are specifically prohibited.
>
> You don't like Wikileaks, that's between you & Julian. A DDoS affects the infrastructure of multiple networks, users, other websites, etc., etc. Most people who read the last sentence thought to themselves that is beyond obvious. It is a shame you do not understand it.
>
> Put another way, perhaps you should take your own 230gr.
++
Kind regards,
Ingo Flaschberger
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"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's
too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that
10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were
you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
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