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In an interview conducted by Pankaj Maru of CyberMedia News over the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), the Anonymous Group members used various nicknames like +Gummy, Amikanon and others

MUMBAI, INDIA: Anonymous Group, which has carried out several cyber attacks against Reliance Communications as well as several government and political parties websites in the past few weeks, talks to Pankaj Maru of CyberMedia News about the groups prime objective to fight censorship of Internet, blocking and curtailing of websites by ISP and government bodies and the Occupy Protest on 9 June.

CIOL: Can you brief us on what led you to start the attacks on RCom and other websites early this month?

+Gummy: Last year itself some ISPs like BSNL and others, had blocked some sites mainly Torrent, Songs.pk, etc. without any court ruling. And then when Isac revealed to us that Reliance Communication is blocking more than 350 plus sites, we decided to act that was on 6 May and then we decided to protest and started 'operation India' or '#OpIndia'. People became aware of it and joined us some of them had hacking skills, some didnt; while some learnt, some were taught. But our main goal was to get rid of the censorship and here we are.

CIOL: Is this the right method to achieve your goal and to protest against censorship?

+Gummy: Who knows? Shouldn't the government be doing something about it? And we are not causing damage to sites. Its the people who have to do that! Did they (government) talk about it in the parliament before censoring? No.

CIOL: Even though it's others and not you damaging the sites, the customers might be suffering?

+Gummy: We did not hit any site which affects commoners. We could have targeted the media sites or IRCTC or passport to get quick attention but no we are among the people.

CIOL: After the 6 May attack, how many more attacks have been carried out and who were the targets?

+Gummy: We did not keep a count because we have no leaders as soon as a website is attacked, we release it to the masses and it gets restored in some time. Government has absolute power and Reliance Communication has absolute money, which makes them a lethal corrupt combo.

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To protest until censorship stops: Anonymous