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PARIS, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The hacker-activist group Anonymous has launched a mission against Islamic extremists, and they recently temporarily took down a French jihadist website. "Freedom of speech and opinion is a non-negotiable thing, to tackle it is to attack democracy," they wrote in the press release for #OpCharlieHebdo. "Expect a massive frontal reaction from us because the struggle for the defense of those freedoms is the foundation of our movement."
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Saturday, they posted an image on Twitter showing the website ansar-alhaqq.net was offline. An hour later, the website was back up, according to Mashable. The website has been described as a French jihadist website, and it is known as a hot bed for extremist views.
The hacker group hasn't announced how they took down the website, but it is suspected that they did it with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. This kind of attack involves flooding a website with a lot of traffic at the same time, which overloads the servers running the website and takes it offline, at least temporarily.
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