The online activist group, called Anonymous, has blocked the Spanish Constitutional Court website. The website became unreachable this Saturday morning and displayed a connection error message.
This is obviously a political action related to the Catalonian autonomy dispute with the Spanish government. Anonymous group made the following statement:
“We wish to state that the Catalan people’s desire to express their will via a referendum is the majority view and cuts across all strata of society and it is in keeping with the civic, peaceful and democratic determination expressed in the multitude of demonstrations held.”
This illustrates how easily a political position is transferred to an online form of protest. This certainly is not the first case of hackers “taking sides” and it is surely not the last.