I think that the 'why' looses it intrigue when you consider that there is little done to convey their purpose to anyone other than 1)the pissed off blog owner and 2)their competing frienemies and script kiddies...

"... we do this to protest against somethings, for example the last month I think there was a genocide agains the Uygurs in the west of China and we just hacked around one thousand websites of the chinesse government. Our web page is: www.ayyildiz.org..."

It seems more is said in this short interview about their supposed 'moral motivations' and logic for these attacks than the attacks themselves actually conveyed.

To make a real stance against something, wouldn't it prove far more beneficial to compose a multi language (Translate) well thought out argument instead of posting a few Turkish sentences and a flag Gif as a protest? A few lines of CSS and javascript to actually provide usable reference and material to viewers about what it is you feel strongly enough about to actually hack another's property over?

I feel like this type of hack is more of a <i>"I'm a rebel (because I am a kid) and am going to tag this bridge because I have a can of paint and no one is there to catch me doing it - I'm a protester because I tagged it 'Pigs suck!'"</i>

But again, in my day when 16 year olds where 'acting out against society' with netbus and BackOrifice on my school pcs

For me its another example for how the term "hacker" is being wrongly generalized and how easy its to claim to be one.

About as interesting as why a schoolboy carves his name into a desk with a compass point.

A fitting punishment would be for a "hacker" to get random excepts from his victims blogs tattooed on his face.

The first line of your comment is pretty insightful. The rest, not so much. It seems you've fallen victim to exactly what you're criticizing.

It's to illustrate the mentality. After all, wouldn't someone else just tattoo his face? No? So that's not much of an excuse for defacing someone else's property.

A brand of H on both cheeks would do as well.

Because defacing a website is the same as stealing or tattooing someone's face.

Nice moral balance you have there.

well no, but 50,000 websites...