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by pimmen 2478 days ago
The oppressed minorities in China have to use VPNs, and China has shown repeatedly that they do not limit cyber attacks to their own territories. In Sweden a very small, local newspaper argued that Taiwan should be recognized as a proper country in the WHO. China made a formal request to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the journalist and publisher should be condemned (I work for the publisher), and that the ministry should publish a "correction" in said newspaper. We refused and the ministry also refused. The newspaper's site has been DDOS:ed sporadically for months now after that and this attack shows no signs of stopping. I believe in coincidences, but I don't believe this is a coincidence.