14 DAY TRIAL // AnonPlus, a social network project launched by Anonymous supporters, had its website hacked by a group of Turkish hackers who position themselves against the global hacktivist movement.
Plans to build a censorship-free social network where everyone can share information unrestrictedly were outlined after several Anonymous-related accounts got closed on Google+.
"We’ve all heard the stories of activists being banned from FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, and governments blocking their people from these sites as well through organized black outs.
"That day has came to an end. Not only did a few people organized an Operation ageist [sic.] Google+, but we have started to build our own Social Network," the project's initiators announced at the time.
The new network was dubbed AnonPlus and a domain name was registered for it, however, a couple of days after the media reported it as a social network for hackers, the people involved started feeling that the name association with Anonymous might not have been such a good idea.
The admins announced their intention to change the name to something else that would not make it sound like it's only for Anonymous. AnonPlus was dead even before it started.
But that wasn't the end of it. The placeholder website listing the management's ideas about the project's future was defaced by a Turkish group of hackers which left an image of the Anonymous logo with a dog head.
"We Are TURKIYE We Are AKINCILAR. This logo suits you more ... How dare you rise against to the World ... Do you really think that you are Ottoman Empire? We thought you before that you cannot challenge with the world and we teach you cannot be social Now all of you go to your doghouse …" the hackers wrote on the front page.
The AnonPlus admins were not very impressed and responded to the Turkish hackers in a lengthy forum post which begins with "AKINCILAR you snobby , arrogant , IGNORANT little [expletive] children! You seriously think hacking one little site will stop a movement for free speech ?"