SR is down due to a DoS attack, DPR himself said so on their forums. The link you posted(I can't read it) was probably right.

Also I have an issue with the ban if that guy indeed got banned, SR itself isn't illegal and browsing it isn't illegal either ... Not yet at least.

The worst kind of censorship is self censorship.

edit: read the rest of the posts, if it's theymos's decision I guess that's that.