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July 27th 2009

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Shitstorm Averted? AT&T Restores Access To 4chan (Which Is Now Under DDoS Attack)

You would have to have a set of balls the size of the Death Star to even think about blocking 4chan.

We are talking about a website with 13 million daily viewers that has nothing better to do than rig Time’s most influential people contests:

In April of 2009, moot was voted the world’s most influential person of 2008 by an open internet poll conducted by Time.[79] The results were questioned even before the poll completed, as automated voting programs and manual ballot stuffing were used to influence the vote.[80][81][82] 4chan’s interference with the vote seemed increasingly likely, when it was found that reading the first letter of the first 21 candidates in the poll spelled out a phrase containing two 4chan memes: “mARBLECAKE. ALSO, THE GAME.”[83]

I would have no desire to be the person that pulls the plug on site like that. That’s a lot of angry customers with less than benevolent intentions you might be throwing rocks at.

Posted at 8:18am and tagged with: moot, 4chan, /b/, att, TIME, marblecake,.

Shitstorm Averted? AT&T Restores Access To 4chan (Which Is Now Under DDoS Attack) You would have to have a set of balls the size of the Death Star to even think about blocking 4chan. We are talking about a website with 13 million daily viewers that has nothing better to do than rig Time’s most influential people contests: In April of 2009, moot was voted the world’s most influential person of 2008 by an open internet poll conducted by Time.[79] The results were questioned even before the poll completed, as automated voting programs and manual ballot stuffing were used to influence the vote.[80][81][82] 4chan’s interference with the vote seemed increasingly likely, when it was found that reading the first letter of the first 21 candidates in the poll spelled out a phrase containing two 4chan memes: “mARBLECAKE. ALSO, THE GAME.”[83] I would have no desire to be the person that pulls the plug on site like that. That’s a lot of angry customers with less than benevolent intentions you might be throwing rocks at.

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