The People's Daily newspaper reported that Web site BlogChina.com seemed to have been knocked out for three days by a flooding denial-of-service (DOS) attack.

The website has since been turned back on, but the closure of the site coincided with the planned global hack attack earlier this week by many crackers around the globe. Fang Xingdong, who started the website, was quoted as saying that the attack was provoked by his outspoken attacks on online porn.