Twitter ATTACKED, facebook too

Last week Twitter, Facebook, and Livejournal went down for a few hours. I didn't really care, technology does that right? Then it turns out it was a hacker job. This time it was political. I suddenly became interested. I've been reading about it, and found literally thousands of articles written about this. So it is linked to a blogger who goes by "Cyxymu". I found their livejournal page (couldn't read it though). Feeling overwhelmed I picked a couple to read from sources I knew of.

From CNN.com
From New York Post
From Washington post

There are heaps, all you have to do is google it if you are interested.

It also rang bells of another politically motivated hacker attack that interested me. The Melbourne International Film Festival was pressured to dump a documentary called The 10 Conditions of Love by the Chinese government. (see article here) Their website was also attacked by hackers.

"The hacker with a screen name of "oldjun" replaced festival information with the Chinese Flag and slogans against Rebiya Kadeer, an exiled Uighur leader who features in a documentary being screened at the Festival. The Chinese Government accuses Kadeer of instigating the bloody violence in the Xinjiang region of north-western China in July, a charge she denies." (see source here)

Anyway I'm going a little crazy with the hyper-linking but I do find it all very interesting.

I don't really know what i am trying to say here, but i think that its interesting because even though the web is used as a voice for ordinary people to say anything they like about anything they like, it is all still being governed, overlooked and watched? Anyway I am kind of scared to write anymore on this issue...just in case. But thought it was all somewhat relevant :) Thanks!