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How certain are you guys that it wasn't the sheer levels of traffic due to the ongoing Boston situation?

Certain beyond any shadow of doubt.

What are the indicators that this is a malicious DDoS attack rather than just unprecedented traffic from interest in the Boston manhunt?

Also, what reason is there for a DDoS attack on Reddit right now?

They're slamming over 20x our normal bandwidth with URL containing things such as "boston", "your_gay", etc.

Maybe government doesn't want redditers countering their official narrative regarding the suspects