Anonymous Hacks Chinese Government Websites

Online privacy and internet privacy in China have been an issue for many years due to their government's censorship China has been conducting censorship for over 60 years under the communist party. People have been arrested and who knows what else for speaking badly about the country online. A specific case is when a Chinese reporter sent an email through Yahoo and it was intercepted by the government at Yahoo China headquarters. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for speaking badly about the country in an email that would be freedom of speech in Canada. Stories like this make you happy that our online censorship laws in Canada are non existent for the most part and that we do not need to use anonymous networks to connect to the real internet. Tor anonymity network is designed for users in countries that have censorship on the internet to be able to use the full uncensored internet. Tor and VPN were both programs that Anonymous posted online when they hacked hundreds of government run websites. The website's homepage displayed in red letters " Hack by ANONYMOUS." Bellow that was a message that read " Your government controls the internet in your country and strives to filter what it considers a threat for it. Be careful. Use VPN for your own security. or Tor." This final message makes me think about whether we do truly face no censorship online.