Bob McCoskrie A website set up purely to oppose marriage equality has been removed from the web on its launch day, after a "large-scale denial of service attack". The Protect Marriage site has gone down today, as has the site of the group which launched the campaign against marriage equality, Family First. "Due to large scale Denial of Service attacks against this domain it has been decided to ensure the stability and security of our servers and network, this account has been removed," says a message from server 24/7 Hosting. Bob McCoskrie from Family First has told media the site was apparently the target of "the largest unprecedented attack on a website in New Zealand history". He said he had expected "a good amount of debate" on the issue, but claimed the attack was "obviously a desperate attempt" at shutting down one side of the argument. Family First is now working with an international webhosting company with advanced security and the website would be live again by tomorrow. The site has also been criticised by the band Train for using its song Marry Me, with the band saying it’s working to get the song off the site “ASAP”.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Monday, 30th July 2012 - 7:28pm