Argentina's leading progressive daily, Página/12, suffers 5-day online attack.
The online edition of the Buenos Aires-based progressive news daily, Página/12, was subjected to a 5-day online attack that culminated with the site's being rendered inaccessible on Monday and Tuesday. This blockade, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack meant to flood the website and thereby preclude new (legitimate) connections, is one of the biggest such attacks ever suffered by any Argentine media site.
The dimensions of the attack and its technical sophistication hampered a rapid response. The newspaper and its software suppliers, however, are developing mitigation mechanisms against future attacks. They will likewise pursue all available legal remedies that apply to such aggression lest it remain unsolved, as has happened with previous attacks on the media.
This attack on freedom of expression did not affect not this publisher as much as it did the right to information for the millions of readers of the country and abroad who choose Página/12 as an essential source to understand and interpret what is happening in the Argentina and the world.
Página/12 readers and employees alike deserve that answer. Finding it is furthermore a prerequisite to prevent risks to the health and continuity of the democratic culture shared by 42 million Argentines.
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