Infamous hacker group Anonymous has launched its own social network after being rejected by Google's freshly-launched online community.
"Today we welcome you to begin anew," the hacker alliance said at the website anonplus.com, which it described as a platform to distribute information.
"Welcome to the Revolution - a new social network where there is no fear...of censorship...of blackout...nor of holding back."
The drive to build a social network came after the Anonymous account was suspended at the Google+ online community, which was launched last month by the Internet giant as a challenge to Facebook.
A message on the anonplus.com website promised that the Anonymous social network would be for everyone and listed online monikers of developers taking part in the project.
Anonymous, which rose to infamy last year with cyber attacks in support of controversial whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, posted the suspension notice from Google on its blog at Tumblr.
The group has been linked to attacks on Visa, Mastercard and Paypal, which blocked donations to WikiLeaks after it published thousands of US diplomatic cables.
Early this year, Anonymous took credit for breaking into the website of HBGary Federal because the firm was working with federal agents to expose the hackers' identities.
Anonymous last week released a trove of military email addresses and passwords it claimed to have plundered from the network of US defense consulting firm Booz Allen HamiltonInvestigative Innovation: Anonymous and Presstorm Present – Anon+
As some of you know [YourAnonNews] got banned from Google+ due to some of their content. What they didn’t know at the time is that they were just one of a handfull of Anonymous accounts that were silenced. This is the sad fact that happens across the internet when you march to a different beat of the drum. We’ve all heard the stories of activists being banned from FaceBook, Twitter, 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 against Google+, but we have started to build our own Social Network.
This is one social network that will not tolerate being shut down, censored, or oppressed – even in the face of blackout.
We the people have had enough…enough of governments and corporations saying what’s best for us – what’s safe for our minds.
The sheep era is over. The interwebz are no longer your prison.
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