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Both 4Chan and Tumblr Down, Everyone Loses

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If you haven’t been following the news today, you might have missed a exciting one where both 4Chan and Tumblr were planning to take each other down. If you really missed it, head over to Techmeme to catch up on the news. 4Chan which has a notorious anonymous board at /b/ have been part of numerous takedowns in the past using DDoS.

4Chan Bought Down by Tumblr Users

Recent examples of 4Chan takedowns have been RIAA and MPAA, the agencies which enforce copyrights on behalf of the music and movie industry. However, it looks like 4Chan met their match today in the form of Tumblr, with both of them promising to take down each other.

Tumblr Bought Down by 4Chan Users

The end result is for all to see. Both 4Chan and Tumblr are down and it looks like that they have both lost in this battle. Earlier 4Chan attacks have been largely anonymous and hard to detect, but this attack on Tumblr was pre-meditated and publicly known. This is why Tumblr users retaliated and bought down 4Chan too.

In the end, these types of attacks are really not worth it and will just make the internet more inaccessible to everyone. Imagine the millions of regular users of Tumblr and 4Chan who will not be able to access their services thanks to the feud run by people who aren’t even concerned about them.

In the end everyone is a loser, including both Tumblr and 4Chan users themselves.

(h/t @manan)

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  1. MM on November 15th, 2010 at 10:55 pm #

    Oh Gods no. Not Tumblr and 4 Chan. Fat, antisocial rejects won’t have anything to do now. Someone get them Haggen-Daz STAT.

  2. lolololol on November 16th, 2010 at 5:10 pm #

    lol, it didn’t work because you were using google chrome :D

  3. tremor on December 28th, 2010 at 12:53 pm #

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