AT&T lifts Web site ban

They arent blocking part of it, they are blocking almost ALL of the site. What gives them the right to censor the internet? if they are going to block 4chan they might as well block all racist, porn, hate filled, and any other website at&t is either not making money off of or is not in agreement with their company. This makes me want to change providers! Stop the hate At&t!

They're must've been a reason, was theyre child porn posted on the site?

I can't imagine them blocking just for racism or hatred, given the many other sites.

The official reason:

"Beginning Friday, an AT&T customer was impacted by a denial-of-service attack stemming from IP addresses connected to img.4chan.org. To prevent this attack from disrupting service for the impacted AT&T customer, and to prevent the attack from spreading to impact to our other customers, AT&T temporarily blocked access to the IP addresses in question for our customers. This action was in no way related to the content at img.4chan.org; our focus was on protecting our customers from malicious traffic.

Overnight Sunday, after we determined the denial-of-service threat no longer existed, AT&T removed the block on the IP addresses in question. We will continue to monitor for denial-of-service activity and any malicious traffic to protect our customers."

This should be much bigger news than it is. A threat to free speech anywhere is a threat to free speech everywhere. What is this, Iran?

rumor running around: someone(s) spoofed img.4chan.org and started the DOS attack to make it look like it originated from 4chan. This is being looked into and will be dealt accordingly.

To me this looks like ATT is WAY overstepping their bounds. I do not see how on earth they think it is lawful to just cut off a website due to reasons they will not disclose... Seems a bit suspicious to me.

The author of this story is such a /b/tard.

Content was never the issue. 4chan was being attacked by a rival website. When 4chan deflected the incoming spam, it flooded at&t's servers. Basically, /b/ was shut down by at&t because of the malicious intent of another website.

Good job Anon. We still have it.

Too bad it's over. 4chan is the cancer that is setting the human race back 80 years.

AT&T's attempt to censor the internet was particularly retarded, considering their target.

There are the same folks who so helpfully showed that Sarah Palin and company were using a free email service to send government-related emails.

Looks like AT&T got trolled.

People, read the rest of the article, please! This was not a censorship act. If they wanted to censor something why would they only go to this one website and only part of it? They were getting Denial of Service attacks from those IPs so naturally they blocked them until the traffic subsided. When you are managing the network it is the correct thing to do. Don't believe everything you read on the internet!

ROFL. What AT@T should do is send along the address and contact information to the NSA blackops division of everybody who frequently visits 4chan and have them erased from this earth, permanently.

4chan is a cesspool of weaklings who share the exact same mindset as criminals 'in the real world'. I'd love to see a member of our internet providers build a massive catalogue of 4chan identities to be used later by contractors in a massive search and destroy mission.

They should have issued that little announcement BEFORE they blocked the site, now it just seems like them trying to cover their tracks. I have ATT&T and it's alright, but if this happens again, especially to a site I actually use, then I'm switching no joke.

all I hear is QQ from the people who are tapping their veins like junkies when their fix is cut off for a few hours. Oh no, 4chan is inaccessable. The world may as well be over.

Get over yourselves, drama queens. Have you seen the internet lately? Blocking 1 server for 1 site would be akin to telling people in a brothel "Just don't use the left half of room #42." If AT&T was on some quest to censor the internet, they'd pretty much need to block 90% of content out there.

'before blocking such a large and controversial Web site.#

It is not THAT large of a site. Normal people don't actually care.

When you become the victim of a DDoS attack (and I have), you don't have time to go around, inform all your customers that an IP address or small range of IP addresses are going to be blocked, you get it done, then inform them that you blocked an attack so those customers aren't denied service because of the DDoS.

AT&T did what it was supposed to do, and in the order in which it should have done it. You stop the attack, then inform people.

If physical (rather than cyber) terrorists began attack in your city, would you want the government go say, we'll wait till we inform everyone of the attack before we begin to stop it, or would you want them to stop it, then tell you all about it?

/r9k/ is stupid. /b/ on the other hand is the only worthwhile part. and controversial? LOOK AT THE FIRST AMENDMENT!!
@Ei8ht There is always CP, ignoring it doesn't make it go away. Just sage the thread and let it die. Mods always catch on.
@Roche This is illegal and it wouldn't matter. learn you proxies idiot

In any case it was a deflection of a DDoS attack, according to m00tykins, AT&T just overreacted like the bunch of money hoarding pansies they are

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