Google, CYXYMU and digital refugees

Google, CYXYMU and digital refugees

Google Public Privacy Blog has an interesting post connected to the most popular blogger in news today CYXYMU.

CYXYMU has been the center of controversies between the cyber war going on since the last couple of days.

The attacks on social networks being used by Georgian protestors have faced major DDoS attacks. Twitter has suffered the most.

Google has also been involved in the process as their Blogger network and other services have also been targeted.

Google said in their blog post:

As censorship techniques and online attacks become more pervasive, it’s clear that fundamental Internet freedoms are at stake. In the case of CYXYMU, entire services were knocked offline in order for one user to be silenced. This goes to show how far suppressive groups will go in order to impede on free speech.

Google collaborated with the other targeted services — LiveJournal, Twitter and Facebook — to help identify the origins of the attacks and minimize their impact. While Blogger was able to withstand the attack this time around, we hope that governments and companies will recognize the threats to free expression that exist today and will work together to ensure that the Internet continues to provide many safe havens for dissidents.

Essentially, Google is trying to say that they did what they did to protect freedom of speech online.

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