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ABC Nyheter: Peace & Justice Party's website is down | Translation in post body
(www.abcnyheter.no)
So there we have the answer to something I remarked on in my previous news translation earlier today: FOR is experiencing a DDoS attack (or maybe another kind of attack, but a DDoS seems most likely).
The website is working for me now, though. https://partiet-for.no/peace-and-justice-party/ for the English-language version of the site.
Some people โ obviously not people who actually agree with the party โ are suggesting a bit conspiratorially that the downtime was actually self-inflicted, basically another way for the party to attract attention to itself. I doubt this, because if there were people willing to tear down their posters, then there are people willing to DDoS them; but the fact remains that, yes, the site's downtime has managed to attract even more attention to the party. I'm also struck by how this very short article is really pretty neutral about the Oslo Metro posters situation โ could it be that as the party receives more coverage, that the constant cries of "Russian asset!" or "Trash party!" will become so tired that they hardly warrant a mention? I guess we'll have to wait and see how things unfold.
Also, I made an embarrassingly sloppy mistake in my previous post, as I wrote 1.4 billion kroner instead of 1.4 million kroner, and even provided a currency conversion. This has been corrected now but I will need to be more careful about that sort of thing going forward. That wasn't the first time I misread a word and translated it without thinking too hard. Going forward I might need to use a machine translation as reference.