"Anonymous wants you to offer free access to uncensored media in your entire country," it said in a Facebook posting.
"When you ignore this message, not only will we attack your government websites, we will also make sure that the international media see the horrid reality you impose on your people!" it said.
Anonymous encouraged people to join its "Operation Egypt" and download software that would enable it to launch distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks.
In such attacks, a large number of computers are commandeered to simultaneously visit a website, overwhelming its servers, slowing service or knocking it offline completely.
Anonymous earlier this month managed to shut down the Tunisian government's official website, the national stock exchange site, and other sites during a popular uprising that led to the ousting of the country's dictator.
Egyptian pro-democracy activists have vowed to step up their anti-government protests, despite mass arrests and high security following two days of street clashes.
The protests against the autocratic rule of President Hosni Mubarak, inspired by the groundbreaking "Jasmine Revolution" in Tunisia, have sent shockwaves across the region.
Twitter and Facebook were among Internet social networking services reportedly being used by protesters to share information and coordinate activities in the campaign against Mubarak.
Facebook said Wednesday following reports it had been blocked in Egypt that it had not seen any major changes in traffic from the country.
Twitter said its service remained blocked in Egypt as of 2200 GMT on Wednesday but that some people were using third-party applications or proxy servers to successfully send "tweets" at the microblogging service.
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