http://nofluffnews.org Slicing Through the Non-News of the World Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:32:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 http://nofluffnews.org/2009/07/27/ma-bell-becomes-big-brother-by-blocking-4chan/ http://nofluffnews.org/2009/07/27/ma-bell-becomes-big-brother-by-blocking-4chan/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:41:51 +0000 rampage http://nofluffnews.org/?p=494 “As if AT&T wasn’t already bad enough. In an act that is sure to spark internet rebellions everywhere, AT&T has apparently declared war on the extremely popular imageboard 4chan.org, blocking some of the site’s most popular message boards, including /r9k/ and the infamous /b/. moot, who started 4chan and continues to run the site, has posted a note to the 4chan status blog indicating that AT&T is in fact filtering/blocking the site for many of its customers (we’re still trying to confirm from AT&T’s side).

Reports of the blocking began to surface on reddit this afternoon, and a number of blogs are beginning to pick up on the story, though it doesn’t seem like any have managed to get a comment from AT&T (we’ve reached out to the company and will update once we hear back)… “

source: techcrunch.com

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