The Democratization of Censorship
Are DDoS attacks really a problem for journalists getting out information to the public, or are they more so just a problem for journalists who want to distribute content via their own website? Wanting to run a website is reasonable, as it enables journalists to make money on ads as well, but does the inability to run your own website truly hamper free speech?This seems more like an architecture problem to me, not with regards to the Internet, but with regards to how articles are distributed: by contacting a server who responds with the article. If I really wanted to get some information out, I would upload it to: Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3 and any other free/cheap hosting service I know, and spread the links out on Twitter, Facebook, HN, Reddit, etc. Would it really be possible for any attacker to take down all these services, thus preventing the information from getting out? Or is this more about distributing articles via a web app?