We talked about 4chan when they hacked Time magazine’s “most influencial person” voting:

Moot is the world’s most influential person according to Time Magazine

Now it seems that 4chan has done something to piss off AT&T, and AT&T has censored them:

AT&T Reportedly Blocks 4chan. This Is Going To Get Ugly.

In other words, AT&T has just opened perhaps the most vindictive, messy can of worms it could have possibly found. Blocking any site is an extreme breach of user trust, but the decision to block 4chan in particular just seems stupid. Expect the web equivalent of rioting if this doesn’t change soon.

It should be interesting to watch this unfold.

[Update 7/27, 8:50AM: It appears that AT&T backed down:

S---storm Averted? AT&T Restores Access To 4chan (Which Is Now Under DDoS Attack):

An update on the situation as of 8 AM Eastern Time: access to 4chan has apparently been restored, with AT&T reportedly confirming the hours-long block of portions of the site, “following the practices of their policy department.”

AT&T did confirm the blockade, but did not state a reason for their actions:

AT&T Blocking Access to Portions of 4chan

AT&T has confirmed that they are “currently blocking portions of the internet site 4chan.org”, but states that they are “following the practices of their policy department.”

The message in this video starts 55 seconds in, referring to the "Great Internet Firewall" and the need to prevent it:

It now appears that 4chan is under its own DDOS attack, overloading the servers and making it difficult to access the site. See Distributed Denial of Service Attacks for details. Currently (7/27 8:50AM) the site is completely unavailable:

http://www.4chan.org

It could be that there are so many people craving information about this incident that the site cannot handle the legitimate load. ]