Image via WikipediaChange.org is a s platform that allows anyone from anywhere to launch an online petition or social campaign. The site has been blocked in China for some years already.
The website is s experiencing a heavy denial of service attack from apparently hackers from China since Monday this week.
Although the reason of the hackers are not clear yet, it seems that this petition is the aim of the service disruption. A petition calling for the release of Ai Weiwei.
On April 3, internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong, and his papers and computers were seized from his studio compound. Now the Guggenheim Foundation is leading the call for his releaseAi has been in custody in Beijing since early this month. The petition for the release of Ai have already registered about 90,000 users from 175 countries.
Ai Weiwei is both an artist and an activist. One of his most recent artwork is the artistic design of the Beijing National Olympics Stadium, where he collaborated with Sweden architects and one of his activist work that probably caught the ire of the Chinese government was his expose of the corruption scandal in the rebuilding of the Sichuan schools which were destroyed by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Ai is an Internet user and uses this to communicate with people from China.
I just would like to remind people that "Internet is for EVERYONE" (www.isoc.org). Internet is a place for us to express our freedom.
Do we really need to be denied access to a certain site just for the political interest of somebody else?
Stay protected people when you connect to the wired world!
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