[UPDATE02] Sept 2nd at the RNC -- Police Oppression Ramps Up, as Does Cyberterrorism Against Sites Covering RNC Police Actions.

I'm not a big fan of the term "cyberterrorism" -- it's been defined so broadly as to be basically meaningless. But today, we do now have confirmation that multiple journalist sites that have been covering the RNC police actions and documenting massive police oppression are today being attacked by a distributed denial of service attack. Thus far, I've heard that Daily Kos, Fire Dog Lake, [and] Eschaton, and Free Press [Free Press was just super-slow due to the huge number of people accessing their info on police malfeasance -- folks there reported 100,000 site visits since this morning, about ten times normal] have all been attacked.

In related news, Amy Goodman has indeed been arrested -- at least 283 other people have been as well. Many of those arrested were simply witnessing events or covering events for various news outlets.

[UPDATE01]Here is video of Amy Goodman's arrest:

Democracy Now released a statement condemning the arrests of Amy Goodman and producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar -- it is available here.

[UPDATE02]I heard from a few folks who stated that journalists were not being specifically targeted by the police. Below is a video of the I-Witness journalists house raid documenting undeniably that they are: