Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing

Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by sannee on Saturday September 07, 2019 @02:57PM (#20905780)

Wikipedia is blocked in China. It's politically undesirable for 1/8 of the human population...

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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by NotSammyHagar on Saturday September 07, 2019 @03:39PM (#20906011)

I think undesirable here describes something like white nationalists. They have a problem getting web hosting.

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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by sannee on Saturday September 07, 2019 @05:37PM (#20906700)

CloudFlare has strategic business partnership with Baidu [1]. They are very likely to cooperate with the chinese government to implement the great chinese firewall.

Additionally, helping to block Wikipedia because China says so is much easier to excuse than blocking 4chan - they would just be complying with local regulations after all.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2015/cloudflare-an...

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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by allard on Saturday September 07, 2019 @04:43PM (#20906401)

Because all of them don't want it?

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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by nine_k on Saturday September 07, 2019 @03:02PM (#20905804)

Unlike a DDoS attack, this is not a technological problem.

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