China has been on a never-ending blocking spree. After blocking the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg, the latest news site to join the prohibited gang is Reuters.
A Reuters spokeswomen while confirming the block informed in a statement, “Reuters is committed to practicing fair and accurate journalism worldwide. We recognize the great importance of news about China to all our customers, and we hope that our sites will be restored in China soon.”
In the past, Reuters had faced a partial censorship in China; however, this time both the Chinese and the English sites have gone down, as per the data gathered from Great Fire – the internet monitoring site.
Why the site has been blocked, is still to be clear. China has a history of blocking news sites and services without warning. However, in cases of media it has maintained a protocol, to follow controversial stories that may or may not lead to a ban. The Guardian, New York Times and Bloomberg were blocked for their online political exposes. However, the same thing cannot be said about Reuters. Reuters hasn’t reported anything that, might be looked upon as controversial.
In yet other news, Greatfire, is is facing DDOS attack, and a result is receiving 2.6 billion requests per hour to its servers – a whopping 2500% increase in traffic.
“We are not equipped to handle a DDoS attack of this magnitude and we need help,” informed Greatfire officials in a public statement.
The company currently needs to spend $30,000 in bandwidth fees per day and but is counting on the amnesty from Amazon who reportedly hosts its data.
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