Vindication

You may recall I told you yesterday that Twitter had come under attack by powerful forces attempting to keep me from getting my message out on the blogging service.

Everybody laughed at me, but who turned out to be right? Me.

Via BCC | A “massively co-ordinated” attack on websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter was directed at one individual, it has been confirmed.
Facebook told BBC News that the strike was aimed at a pro-Georgian blogger known as Cyxymu. …
“[The] attack appears to be directed at an individual who has a presence on a number of sites, rather than the sites themselves,” a Facebook spokesman told BBC News.
“Specifically, the person is an activist blogger and a botnet was directed to request his pages at such a rate that it impacted service for other users.”

As you can see, the attack missed its intended target, Inevitableriseofthemachines.com and poor Cyxymu got caught in the crossfire. It seems he got a small taste of what its like to be me.

I always knew when their lies, intimidations and other tactics failed to silence me that they would try to shut me down with brute force. But rather than being scared by their, to be frank, clumsy attempts to darken this site, we are heartened.

It is the loyalty of brave people like you – well, less brave than me but still braver than most, something like 40th percentile on the brave scale – that when the dark age of our Robot overlords comes, we have hope to keep the fires of humanity burning right up until they are quickly snuffed.

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