Tunisia
Report: Internet Filtering in Tunisia in 2006-2007
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Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profiles: Tunisia.
Overview
Although Tunisia has actively sought to develop its information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, the government blocks a range of Web content and has used nontechnical means...
ONI Blog: The Worst Places to be a Blogger
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has just released a list of the ten worst countries in which to blog. Topping the list is Burma, followed closely by Iran, Syria, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Tunisia, China, Turkmenistan, and Egypt.
In determining...
- Posted on 30/Apr/2009; tagged in Burma, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Syria, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Human rights
ONI Blog: Tunisian journalist sues government agency for blocking Facebook, claims damage for the use of 404 error message instead of 403
Tunisian journalist and blogger Zied El-Hen filed a suit this week in a Tunisian court against the Tunisian Internet Agency for blocking the social networking Web site Facebook, according to a report by Reuters (Arabic). The journalist...
- Posted on 12/Sep/2008; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Human rights, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Facebook is unblocked in Tunisia by presidential order
Internet users in Tunisia were able to access the social networking Web site facebook today after it was blocked by the country's ISPs last month without giving any reason. Interestingly, the President of Tunisia Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali himself ordered the...
- Posted on 03/Sep/2008; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering
ONI Blog: Online censorship in Tunisia
Sami Ben Gharbia of Global Voices posted an excellent review of recently blocked blogs, social networking Web sites (including facebook), and video sharing sites. The post also presents users' reaction to online censorship and the anti-censorship campaigns organized...
- Posted on 24/Aug/2008; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering
Report: Internet Filtering in Tunisia in 2005: A Country Study
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Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary
2. Political, Technical, and Legal Context in Tunisia
A. Sensitive / Controversial Topics for Media Coverage
B. Internet Infrastructure and Access
C. Media Ownership and Control
D. General Media Regulation
E. Internet Access Regulation
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ONI Blog: Tunisia bans two issues of French publications and blocks the Web site of the daily Libération
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the action of the Tunisian authorities in banning issues of two French publications, the daily Le Monde and the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, and blocking the website of a third, the daily Libération, because of articles by...
- Posted on 28/Feb/2007; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: WSIS Media Coverage
BBC - Controversy dogs UN net gathering (pdf)
BBC - Tunisia slated over net controls (pdf)
BBC - Hungry for net freedom in Tunisia (pdf)
Reuters - Rights group faults Tunisia on Internet censorship (pdf)
Times Online...
- Posted on 22/Nov/2005; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Expression Under Repression and Tunisia's Secret Police
The Berkman Center blogs about "Expression Under Repression," which is of interest not only to civil society groups, but to Tunisia's secret police:
Right now Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman are hosting "Expression Under Repression," a workshop...
- Posted on 17/Nov/2005; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Internet Filtering in Tunisia
The OpenNet Initiative has just released a report detailing Internet filtering in Tunisia based on technical testing conducted over the last year. We tested Internet access in Tunisia from within the country using local ISPs and found that Tunisia blocks...
- Posted on 17/Nov/2005; tagged in Tunisia
