{"id":573986,"date":"2010-05-21T01:53:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T05:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/blog\/itinnovation\/articles\/20100519\/1017029491.shtml"},"modified":"2010-05-21T01:53:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T05:53:13","slug":"is-telling-people-to-visit-a-certain-website-a-denial-of-service-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/573986","title":{"rendered":"Is Telling People To Visit A Certain Website A Denial Of Service Attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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iamtheky<\/a> sends in the story of a UC San Diego Professor, Ricardo Dominguez, whose focus of research is “electronic civil disobedience,” (for which he received tenure and a fellowship from his university), but who is now potentially facing discipline or even criminal charges from the university for staging a “virtual sit-in”<\/a> to protest budget cuts. It certainly raises questions about the line between telling people to visit a website and a hack attack to take down a website. It’s difficult to see how just telling people to go to a website should ever qualify as any kind of attack, but the University is said to be contemplating criminal charges.<\/p>\n

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