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"Based on reports we've received, we believe the intent of this attack is to convince us to remove a specific class of content."

Does anyone know what that "specific class of content" is, or can shed some light over the motivation of the attacks?

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> As can be seen in the code, the two targeted URLs are github.com/greatfire and github.com/cn-nytimes, which are mirror sites for GreatFire.org and the Chinese New York Times. GreatFire and NYT both use GitHub to circumvent the online censorship performed by the Great Firewall of China (GFW).

I read that. Can someone shed some light over the motivation of the attacks?

Defending against an DoS-attack costs money. People try to spend as few money as possible.

So, the theory is that the attacker wants github to take the repos down by making it costly to not do so.

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