{"id":1501359,"date":"2022-06-02T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T17:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1501359"},"modified":"2022-06-02T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T17:44:53","slug":"how-a-cyberattack-tried-to-stop-you-from-watching-matt-walshs-what-is-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-a-cyberattack-tried-to-stop-you-from-watching-matt-walshs-what-is-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"How A Cyberattack Tried To Stop You From Watching Matt Walsh\u2019s \u2018What Is A Woman?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-a-cyberattack-tried-to-stop-you-from-watching-matt-walshs-what-is-a-woman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1501359&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Someone did not want you to watch the new documentary \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/videos\/what-is-a-woman\">What is a Woman?<\/a>\u201d so badly that they launched a cyberattack against The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night, the documentary \u2014 in which commentator Matt Walsh upends the gender ideology movement by asking one simple question \u2014 premiered via live stream to Daily Wire subscribers. However, many users had difficulty accessing the film as The Daily Wire\u2019s site was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-daily-wire-comes-under-sustained-ddos-attack-intended-to-disrupt-premiere-of-what-is-a-woman\">hammered<\/a> with one million requests per minute.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Wire Co-CEO Jeremy Boreing confirmed later in the evening that the site was hit by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/360-reviews\/privacy\/what-is-ddos-attack\">distributed denial-of-service<\/a> (DDoS) attack \u2014 in which hackers disrupt a website by flooding it with bot traffic. Picture a highway ramp congested with empty cars such that drivers cannot access the road, or a crowd of people blocking a door such that no one can walk through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working to address these challenges in real time,\u201d Boreing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeremyDBoreing\/status\/1532196938816311296\">said<\/a>. \u201cEven so, the premiere had more viewers than any stream in the history of the site.\u00a0 A huge success for an amazing film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone doesn\u2019t want you to see this movie. See it anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malicious actors often try to use DDoS attacks to disrupt companies as they provide services to their customers. In 2017, for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/threat-analysis-group\/how-were-tackling-evolving-online-threats\/\">Google<\/a> was hit by a group using internet service providers in China with an attack that peaked at 2.5 terabytes per second. In 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/amazon-mitigates-biggest-ever-ddos-attack\">Amazon Web Services<\/a> was slammed with a 2.3 terabyte per second attack.<\/p>\n<p>It is not unprecedented for hackers to leverage DDoS attacks for political purposes. A 2015 attack against code-sharing site GitHub was specifically targeted at sites the Chinese government <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2015\/04\/ddos-attacks-that-crippled-github-linked-to-great-firewall-of-china\/\">did not want its people to see<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is a Woman?\u201d became available to Daily Wire subscribers on the first day of \u201cPride Month\u201d \u2014 in which some LGBTQ activists ramp up their efforts to promulgate radical gender ideology. The film tackles issues such as sex-change operations and hormone blockers for children, transgender athletes\u2019 upending of women\u2019s sports, and university gender studies departments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the most important documentary in America,\u201d Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1532348584523452417\">said<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s why so many people want to stop you from seeing it. Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tfFAJA71BY\">whatisawoman.com<\/a> right now and subscribe to help us keep producing the kinds of content that explodes the woke agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walsh sits down with medical professionals, activists, lawmakers, and many other promulgators of radical gender theory in a search for the answer to a very simple question \u2014 \u201cWhat is a woman?\u201d He is repeatedly met with deflections and character accusations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is why they don\u2019t want you to see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhatIsAWoman?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhatIsAWoman<\/a>. It\u2019s because of moments like this. Gender ideology is an insane, incoherent mess. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p5m2RIbKff\">pic.twitter.com\/p5m2RIbKff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1532347722111516672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also interviews clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, theologian Carl Trueman, and multiple women forced to compete against biological men in sports \u2014 including a female teammate of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Walsh travels halfway across the globe to seek answers from the Maasai people of Kenya \u2014 who, despite their lack of exposure to gender studies coursework, seem to have a far better grip on biology than many Americans brandishing their PhDs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here\u2019s a nice video to share for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PrideMonth?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PrideMonth<\/a>. I spoke to an African tribe about transgenderism. The Left claims that traditional cultures have fluid notions of gender. That\u2019s\u2026 not exactly what I found.<\/p>\n<p>More in the full film, What Is A Woman, premiering tonight on the Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WbU6s8Y2Q5\">pic.twitter.com\/WbU6s8Y2Q5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1531973691252391937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the hackers\u2019 best efforts, the premiere of \u201cWhat is a Woman?\u201d was the most trafficked live stream The Daily Wire has ever experienced \u2014 and the company added more paid subscribers than any other previous day in its history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone did not want you to watch the new documentary \u201cWhat is a Woman?\u201d so badly that they launched a cyberattack against The Daily Wire. 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