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New York Magazine Goes Dark After Posting Cosby Article

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:39PM   
from the perhaps-they're-being-abused? dept.

HughPickens.com writes:

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.

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• Re:How the mighty has fallen... (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 29 2015, @08:18AM

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday July 29 2015, @08:18AM (#215328) Homepage

  Nothing like Jimmy Saville. Everyone knew he was a perve for ages, there was even a documentary (probably Louis Thereaux, not sure) highlighting this a decade before his death. He also got the very cold shoulder when he appeared on HIGNFY. (However, the claimed "cut" bits of that show are fake. This isn't the original segment, it features a tiny clip, but has some excellent commentary on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H24mFoSWpsc .)

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