Dear citizens of the world,
Anonymous cannot and will not stand idly while people are being denied their basic rights and human liberties. Yet there are still a lot of governments worldwide who fail to even aspire to the standard of freedom that was set by the universal declaration of human rights. These governments believe they have the right and privilege to impose upon their own people an official version of reality which is not in any way tampered by the truths of everyday life under which its citizens are living.
Anonymous believes this is an outright crime which cannot go unpunished.
The Egyptian people are living under inhumane conditions being denied their basic rights to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association and the free access to information. By imposing censorship upon its own people and condemning these freedoms the Egyptian government has revealed itself to be criminal and has made itself an enemy of anonymous.
To the Egyptian government,
Anonymous challenges all those who are involved in censorship. Anonymous wants you to offer free access to uncensored media in your entire country. When you ignore this message not only will we attack your government websites, anonymous will also make sure that the international media sees the horrid reality you impose upon your people.
Anonymous will not spare anybody who supports this suppression.
It is in the hands of the Egyptian government to end this. Continue your oppression and you will be subject to civil protest, lend an ear to the claim of freedom from your people and the hostilities will cease.
To the Egyptian people,
We stand together and united against this oppression. This struggle is not just for you alone but for the whole of human kind. Citizens can no longer endure their government’s abuse. When forced by the threat of oppression we will be loud as hell and when the people roar it will send shivers down the spines of all of those who stifle our freedom and take our precious liberties away.
Anonymous are your brothers and sisters, your sons and daughters, your parents and your friends regardless of age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity or place of birth. Anonymous is you, you will not be denied your right to free speech, free press, free association and your universal right to freely access information both in real life and through the Internet.
Join us on the IRC, join us in this battle for freedom of information worldwide, for as Kahlil Gibran once said:
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit. Life, freedom and thought are three in one and are everlasting and shall never pass away.
We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive, We do not forget. Expect us.
Press Release 26/1/2011
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Comments
Anonymendment
Uncensored access is not enough, it also must be unmonitored. If your access is under surveillance, it will only be a matter of time until it is being censored as well. If a government minder is watching which items you choose and which not, it is like filling in a multiple choice test against your will. If the results are being leaked into the public, and you cannot produce proof thereof because all you ever get to see is a significant lot of deranged allusions to insider knowledge in what otherwise appears to be harmless gibberish, you are being tortured mentally before you are being tortured bodily. When there is censorship, at least the government does not get any such results. In other words, once your results are stronger than your enemies like, surveillance will automatically turn into censorship. The only way to a sustainable abolition of censorship is the abolition of surveillance.
Today all governments which are monitoring the tor network are enemies of Egyptian freedom. If a government is monitoring the tor network to fish out traffic profiles of monitored dissidents, it will eventually share that capability with any other government. If network privacy protection works only for unknown clients but not for known ones it will only be a matter of time until it is lost entirely. Once the network is turned from a grown jungle into a panoptic desert with only a little shrubbery here and there to seek privacy, it could be that noone wanted to defend it, and censorship would have won an advance victory. The only way to successfully fight local surveillance regimes is to fight global surveillance regimes.
Re: Anonymous press release on "Operation Egypt"
This was set up by the CIA and Mossad through the internet Israel and America said nothing while Egypt tortured people for them.Now the US and Israel have no use for Mubarak he is out.They want to take the nile for Israel you watch