This post was in the txt of posts that never make it.
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I rant and write about a ton of stuff. You never read most of it.
I write many articles that never make it on this site either due to my never finishing or by the time I do I find the topic isnt so topical anymore, I lose interest or Im just too lazy.
I usually have a txt file that has a bunch of topics going on simultaneously with reference links and such, not to mention a bunch of stuff I wrote I never put up that eventually gets deleted.

For example right now I have something on Symbian going open source and Comcast changing its name.
Both articles probably arent ever going to make it to this page. I already find its old news.

Anyways - Heres one that didnt make it... well, I guess it did.
Whatever. Have an article I didnt ever mean to post.
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Verizon probably didnt do it for teh lulz.
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So Ive gotten a few emails from people asking me to look into 4chan apparently being blocked. Honestly I didnt see the big story, but now I see there are reports of it on cnet, pcmag, the twsj, etc. Sheesh.

Ok, first off, I hate 4chan. I dont go there. I normally have better things to do.
As far as Im concerned, its at best the Mos Eisley of the Internet ("wretched hive of scum and villainy").

So anyways suddenly it seems (if 3 days ago counts as sudden - thats February 5, 2010) there are reports that Verizon Wireless is blocking access to 4chan! OH NOES!

While I could give a rats ass about 4chans existence, I DO care about an ISP blocking a website, especially when they do not have a reason. So firstly, damn you Verizon for putting me on a path to agreeing with 4chan on something.

Now then, I began to look into it briefly and dug past all the jackasses hype of "OMFG WE R SO BAD THEY BLOCK US NOW WE R MOAR AWSUM" and noticed its not even all of Verizons network thats in question here. Its Verizon Wireless. So if you have FIOS, or regular Verizon DSL service, all is well.
Ok, people are flipping out about their mobile access to 4chan. Hmmm. Ok, whatever. Still weird as far as Im concerned that it would be blocked on one network but not the other.
This was starting to sound less and less like censorship. In fact, it had a familiar ring to it.

(Flashback - not too long ago ATT blocked 4chan, for its participation in DDOS and other attacks. It presumably turns out that some folks that have some beef with 4chan (or in desperate need of "lulz") spoofed some IPs to make it appear as if these attacks were coming from the 4chan site, when in fact they were not and thusly ATT blocked traffic to 4chan in a defensive maneuver to protect its network.)

I will spare you the bull and get right to the hypothesis.
Hows this for a guess on whats going on:

Someone realized that by making it look like a DDOS was coming from 4chans IP, causing 4chan to be blocked by ATT to protect from the attack, thus making 4chan inaccessible to millions of users (ATT) - which in effect created a DDOS-like effect on 4chan itself from the ISP (also, well played imo) worked very well and decided to do it again, but this time with Verizon.
Apparently, some investigation shows that its the return route to Verizon thats being blocked.
The packets can reach 4chan from VZW but 4chan cannot respond those packets as they simply get dropped, which sounds like attack defenses to me. Unfortunately for 4chan users the way tcp/ip works relies on communication both ways. Actually in a funny side-circumstance, 4chan users trying to access the site but cannot access it are just flooding the site with requests and forcing the server to send replies that are being dropped, which can cause among other things some buffer overflows, which is kind of almost hilarious to me in this particular context.

Update:
Relax people.
You can surf 4chan again from your mobiles at the time of this post with no fear of web filters on your mobile devices.
Just wait though. Heres another free prediction.
The uproar the mobile network blockage caused shows the popularity of browsing 4chan with mobile devices.
So how long until they finally figure out posting viruses for PCs isnt the way to go, and get their new lulz from dropping mobile malware?
When it happens, just remember they arent "cutting edge" for thinking it up.