The USA gave away the controlling rights to the Internet this fall. This means we have lost, for all intents and purposes, our 1st Amendment rights to free speech. While many who use the internet are not from the USA, they have luxuriated in pretty much free speech unless their own country has blocked it.

There has already been some censoring tactics. And it wouldn't surprise me to find this "testing the waters" of the DDos to be a part of the new control.

However, when your fav site goes down...maybe it's still there and your computer has just been swamped that it cannot find it. Here's something to try. (I'd print this off as if that site is affected, you might not be able to go there to follow it.

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-c...COS-04-10aaa1a
Sometimes, when your favorite websites go "down," they're actually still right there. You just can't see them, because your computer doesn't know how to get there.
What if you could give your PC some better driving directions right now, in just a minute or two tops?
To do that, you just need to change your DNS server.