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Ukraine: Ex.ua is Back Online

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Ukraine, Citizen Media, Digital Activism, Economics & Business, Governance, Law, Politics, Protest, Technology, RuNet Echo

Ex.ua, a file-sharing site that the authorities shut down two days ago [1], is now back online [2] [uk], though its content is still inaccessible. @bl4ka tweets [3] [ru]: “The DDoS revolution has won! […]” @VsemPohuy tweets [4] [ru] about the DDoS attacks that followed the shutdown [5], and the situation in the country in general: “Ex.ua's back, it's now okay to stop DDoS-ing the sites of [the Interior Ministry], the president, etc. That students continue to be killed at police stations, that's [no big deal].” Journalist Pavel Sheremet [6] writes [7] [ru] about “the hackers’ revolution”: “There was [Orange Maidan [8]], then [“Tax Maidan” [9]] […]. Now there's a Maidan on the internet.”