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  • IheartcheeseEnglish
    253·
    5 months ago

    Lots of grand conspiracy theories in this thread when, in the end, it’s probably some bored script kiddy

    • dubyakayEnglish
      102·
      5 months ago

      I doubt it. I’d sooner think it’s a corporation or state actor.

      • IheartcheeseEnglish
        171·
        5 months ago

        How does taking the website down for a few hours help those people? Especially a state actor? If it was the US government or someone like them wouldn’t they do something more permanent? Actually wipe the website?

        • dubyakayEnglish
          94·
          5 months ago

          Some news source released something that got redacted based on government pressure. Archive made a snapshot of the news source. Now the state actor goes after the Archive to prevent time sensitive information from spreading. They benefit from the information not being widely available immediately.

            • dubyakayEnglish
              32·
              5 months ago

              How would I know? The news source retracted their statement and archive.org is down…

              • IheartcheeseEnglish
                30·
                5 months ago5 months ago

                Up for me. It was down a few hours tops. And I remember checking it around the time you made that post as well?

          • IheartcheeseEnglish
            90·
            5 months ago

            What does knocking the website offline for a few hours do for their war?

            • Beetlejuice001English
              14·
              5 months ago5 months ago

              Who knows, how in The world would I know

                • Beetlejuice001English
                  13·
                  5 months ago

                  I offered a plausible explanation never did I suggest it was THE reason. Near zero chance we will ever know

                  • IheartcheeseEnglish
                    40·
                    5 months ago5 months ago

                    I just don’t see how its plausible Israel wanted a website to go down for 2 hours to help them bomb Palestine

    • nl4realEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      Is it still something you can do to big sites the way people did back in the 2000’s?

      • IheartcheeseEnglish
        10·
        5 months ago

        Yep but usually the worst case scenario is a few hours of downtime.