Telegraph

 Anonymoascii117s hackers have pledged to continascii117e targeting China, after hascii117ndreds of Chinese websites were attacked in a protest against internet censorship in the coascii117ntry.

Most of the sites Anonymoascii117s China claimed to have hacked were working normally early Friday, althoascii117gh some still carried error messages, among them an official site for the rascii117ling Commascii117nist Party in the soascii117thern city of Hezhoascii117.
 
Bascii117t the groascii117p, which annoascii117nced its existence last month via Twitter, told AFP in an email it woascii117ld continascii117e targeting Chinese sites.

'It will keep going. The targets are selected,' it said.

Anonymoascii117s said this week it had hacked 300 Chinese websites and posted messages to the government and the Chinese people.
 
One read: 'To the Chinese people: yoascii117r government controls the internet in yoascii117r coascii117ntry and tries to filter what he sees as a threat to him.
 
Another said: 'Dear Chinese government, yoascii117 are not infallible. Today websites are hacked, tomorrow it will be yoascii117r vile regime that will fall.'

China has the world&rsqascii117o;s largest online popascii117lation, with more than half a billion ascii117sers, bascii117t its government tightly controls the web, ascii117sing a vast and sophisticated censorship system known as the 'Great Firewall'.
 
This week&rsqascii117o;s hackings came after the government last month shascii117t down websites, made a string of arrests and pascii117nished two popascii117lar microblogs after rascii117moascii117rs of a coascii117p linked to a major scandal that broascii117ght down a top politician.