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gobbo writes "The buzz amongst my Muslim acquaintances is that the al-Jazeera site is under "cyber-attack." Shortly after posting photos of mangled Iraqi children the server became unavailable. I don't have satellite TV to see if they are reporting anything on al-Jazeera itself, but pinging their name servers fails too. For those who don't already know, the al-Jazeera channel is a pan-Arabic satellite TV channel out of Qatar." While I am certain many h4x0rs are political, I can't help thinking that script kiddies are like moths to the flame of rising page views. (this was initially posted incorrectly, and has been moved to the proper date)
Boy oh boy. If I had mod points, I'd exact some serious retribution for some complicated and sarcastic reason involving the moderation system.
Now if people did the same to Fox News the world would be a better place.
"Go into the hall of mirrors and have a bloody hard look at yourself" - HG Nelson
Does a slashdotting constitute a DOS attack?
I guess the extra traffic couldn't help the situation.
Oh, too bad...
Huh?
Ladies and Gentlemen, please.
CNN is an American company. I'm an American. I don't want to see negative stories about my country. If they show me negative stories, I might change the channel. CNN knows this. CNN's advertiser's know this.
Does CNN broadcast biased stories? Probably Not.
Is CNN biased in its choice of stories? Definitely Yes.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
al-Jazeera is the Fox News of the Arab world or Fox news is the al-Jazeera of the Western world.