Hackers protest against censorship by taking down a government site

The group says, “(The Turkish government) has blocked thousands of websites and blogs while abusive legal proceedings against online journalists persist. The government now wants to impose a new filtering system on the 22nd of August that will make it possible to keep records of all the people’s internet activity. Though it remains opaque why and how the system will be put in place, it is clear that the government is taking censorship to the next level.”

Anonymous took down Turkey’s Telecommunications Communication Presidency (TIB) website, which is still inaccessible at the time of this writing.

Internet censorship isn’t new to Turkey as the country’s ISPs have blocked YouTube and numerous other sites over the course of the last couple of years.

In February 2011, Anonymous took down the websites of the Ministry of Information and President Hosni Mubarak’s National Democratic Party as protest against Internet censorship in Egypt.

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