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In recent news AT&T was under fire from the web site operators at 4chan. Over the weekend, AT&T began blocking traffic to www.4chan.org, do to what it called a DDoS attack being launched from 4chan servers.  Today, 4chan argued that the AT&T was intentionally blocking the sites content from its subscribers.

I’m sure you have heard of AT&T, but if your not familiar with 4chan, then I don’t recommend visiting their site at www.4chan.org.  Even if you just did go there, you won’t think it’s very interesting at first glance.  From visiting the site, I would assume that they are based out of Japan.  Traceroute tells me the server is being hosted in California by a company called xeex Communications.

During todays report, a false report of Randall Stephenson’s death showed up on a website affiliated with CNN.  The website, at IReport.com is “a user-generated site” and that stories are not “edited, fact-checked or screened”.  Basically, the site appears to serve as a bulletin board for real news.  In this case, the report never made it into the national news, but in the past these pranksters have managed to get these stories through.