On Wednesday February 2nd, 2011, an anonymous online group shut down the Egyptian government sites to show support of the current protests occurring in Egypt. The group contained about five hundred online supporters from various locations of the world and somehow they used software to take down the sites. Last month, the group also shut down the government websites in Tunisia to support the forced flee of dictator, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. This group has shut down these sites in a fight for freedom and to stop oppressive governments. The F.B.I. states that they have completed forty search warrants within the United States, related to the online group’s actions. These actions could possibly lead to ten years in prison for criminal charges. So far, there have been some arrests and equipment has been confiscated in the countries of Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and France. Further raids are expected, however a member 0f the anonymous group says this will not affect them. Just hours after the searches, nearly six hundred people were back online planning efforts, some of these people had been arrested and released.
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