The Chinese activist group GreatFire, which operates websites that circumvent the country's censorship, said its online service has come under attack in an effort to shut it down. "We are under attack and we need help," the group said in a blog post on Thursday, claiming it has been hit by a barrage of automated requests known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Websites are not equipped to handle that kind of volume so they usually 'break' and go offline." GreatFire allows residents of China to circumvent the so-called "Great Firewall" that censors much content from the West, by providing "mirror" websites of those which are blocked by censors. The blog said the attack appears to be in retaliation for a Wall Street Journal article this week which explained methods to access censored websites.
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