As I’m sure Jesus would have said, had he lived to see the Internet: Live by the LOIC; die by the LOIC.
It seems that 4chan, that cesspool of Internet mischief, has finally brought the hammer down on themselves. They attacked Scientology, posted gore and fake news on Ashley Tisdale fan sites and riled the black community with racist attacks on hip-hop web sites. And then the board’s owner did interviews with mainstream publications. It was only a matter of time.
4chan has been largely unavailable this week due to what is rumored to be a protracted Distributed Denail of Service attack on the site. The DDoS beatdown was a favored tactic of 4chan’s /b/tards for shutting down the sites of their rivals, and now it has shut them down. However, the squawk is that this is an internal slapfight between members of the “chan” community, not sweet retribution from on high. Seems they have a stoner anarchist named “pacifico” on the loose with a big bot net. …or he’s just another red herring in this continuing game of Rochambeau.
