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The NYT reports that New York Magazine website went off-line hours after posting a story featuring 35 women who have accused the comedian Bill Cosby of sexual abuse and the article was inaccessible on Monday morning. "Our site is experiencing technical difficulties. We are aware of the issue, and working on a fix," the magazine posted to its main Twitter account early Monday morning.
A user called Vikingdom2016 claimed responsibility for a DOS attack on the site and said the attack was based on a hatred for New York, and was not related to the cover that features Mr. Cosby's accusers. As the website remained off-line, editors were working to find other ways to publish the piece, which the magazine said took six months of work.
On Monday morning, the magazine began posting audio related to the cover article on Instagram. The story is available at Web.Archive.Org's Wayback Machine.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by dime on Tuesday July 28 2015, @07:31PM
The lesson to learn here is that you should kill your idols.
Behind every idol that's propped up as infalliable is a human being, especially if they're the ones propping themselves up as Cosby did his whole life, waving his moral superiority over his own race.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:05PM
> The lesson to learn here is that you should kill your idols.
The broader lesson is that power without accountability magnifies human failings. We see it all the time in all arenas, catholic church pedo cover-ups, jerry sandusky, Donald Sterling's housing discrimination [go.com] while buying multiple lifetime achievement awards [npr.org] from the NAACP.
It's rare that a person who is a saint ends up in power, they kind of self-select out of the pool. So the best we can do is to never let anyone off the hook for being successful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @09:40AM
I conclude it is very dangerous to be your idol. ;-)