[/caption] Author: Brian D. Hill Update: The Justice Department site has been brought back up before this article was completed but check the screenshot as it did confirm that the website was indeed down. It has just been discovered that after the news got out around yesterday, after one of the biggest protests on the Internet happened against SOPA and PIPA, Anonymous Declared War on the U.S. Government and the MPAA and even today Justice.gov is still in fact down today and Universal Music group has also been shut down for maintenance. The attacks come due to the MegaUpload Online file sharing service has been completely shut down due to the U.S. Government ordering it, shutting down both illegal and legal files in the process. Shutting down a file sharing service is a violation of Free Speech because the court could have very easily ordered the takedown of the material that infringed upon the copyright owner but instead resorted to a U.S. Government operatives declaring war on file sharing sites whether it be legal or illegal sharing of information. TechDirt had released an article yesterday that the Anonymous Hacktivist Group known as Anonymous!, which some people including a radio show host believes are in reality a front Internet attack group from DARPA to be used as an excuse for the Governmen [...] http://uswgo.com mirrored article goto http://uswgo.com/censorship/
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